Empowerment of women has been a central concern and endeavor in countries across the world through many phases of human history. In recent centuries this issue has become more urgent than ever before, as self consciousness about inequality has driven societies to address this matter with renewed vigor. The Empowering womrn The India Socio cultural scenario is an academic output of the first International conference on Empowerment of Women in Developing world organised by women development cell, Shivaji College, University of Delhi