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Synopsis To stop discrimination against women, giving them a healthy atmosphere to work and live, making them economically independent, there have been endeavours in last few decades by formulating and implementing laws and rules, organizing world conferences and seminars and doing research on gender issues. This empowerment by itself cannot make a woman economically independent and provide her status of equality. She needs to be assertive and make herself understood by those around her who still have not accepted the concept of women’s empowerment and feminism due to lack of awareness. This book is a pioneering attempt to provide a comprehensive compilation of articles by eminent scholars on the issue of women's empowerment in Asia. Segmented into five parts - Language, Media and Empowerment; Socio-political-culture Empowerment; Economic, Profession and legal Empowerment; Domestic Empowerment and Empowerment and Education - the sole objective of this book is to present various dimensions and facets of empowerment along with role of language, education, Media, literature, science and technology, and women's health. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, it covers wide areas of research. Contributors to this edited book are from various field and are renowned in their respective domains. The book provides an overview of important aspects of women's life cross-culturally and cross-linguistically and presents ways to understand the context which influences women's roles, relationships and existence. The purpose of the book is to create awareness among readers about the role of women in various cultures.