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Abstract
Women empowerment is able to control over material assets, intellectual resources and ideology. It involves power to power with and power within. This involves ability to get what one wants and to influence others on our concerns. This study concentrates to find various indicators for assessing women empowerment. The widely used indicators by the researchers in different Asian countries are decision making, purchasing capacity, control over credit, control over income and savings, education and health, spatial mobility, political awareness and political activities and attitudes are very important to assess women empowerment. Further, these indicators are widely used in developing as well as developed countries for assessing women empowerment.