Empowering of Women through Education with Special Reference to Manipuri Women

Education is the most significant instrument for changing women's status in the society. Thus women empowerment is an essential tool to bring about changes in their socio-economic condition.To achieve empowerment, women have to be educated about their rights privileges in a modern society. It is educated women have succeeded in changing their stereotype images to more positive ones.In the past, the life cycle of Manipuri women begins at home and ends at home only. But at present, most of the parents have started to keep equal eyes upon the boys and girls regarding education. As a result number of educated women are increasing by leaps and bounds and are found serving in many departments and establishments. A concerted effort by all governmental and private organisation have taken up various new education policies and schemes to increase the number of educated women in the society.