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Assess the contribution of contemporary women’s movements in women’s empowerment.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Naila Kabeer defines empowerment as the expansion of the ability to make strategic life choices where that ability was previously denied, and measures it through resources, agency and achievements. Judged on that scale, the contemporary women's movements — the autonomous groups of the post-1975 period and their NGO, self-help and digital successors — have transformed…

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