“There is no force equal to a women determined to rise”- W.B.Dubious Economic empowerment of women is a branch in the extremely vast field of feminist economics. It not only deals with gender roles in the economy but also with situations oppressive to women in the society which has an underlying impact on the economy of the world. The proverb ‘it is a man’s world’ should be questioned now a days as studies show in rich countries girls do better than boys in school, filling in the most amount of new jobs. In an economic super power such as America, two[1]thirds of women hold a paying job that is almost half the population. If other developing countries in the world were to follow the same path then undoubtedly poverty would be a problem of the past, as studies prove women are responsible for 40% of GDP (gross domestic product) of developed nations. Women are the horsepower in the engine of global growth, yet they remain the largest untapped resource. How can we emancipate this quagmire of inequality? It is neither easy nor impossible; it requires a universal change of thought with one common aspiration ‘the economic empowerment of society with equal opportunities given to all genders to help achieve this goal. The primary objective of this subject is to show if economics and women are intertwined for the overall development of the economy or if it is a propaganda of the feminist societies for their own upliftment.
