In recent past, a number of studies have come up with the deliberations on
different issues related to gender bias, status and empowerment of women in
various fields. But there has not been any attempt to provide a single measure
of empowerment, relate level of empowerment with the indicators. The current
volume besides providing a regional analysis of deprivation of women on various
counts and an idea of empowerment on available criteria; provided a measure of
empowerment by an index constructed on the basis of a number of attributes
indicating the status and empowerment of women in the family and society as well
in north east. It