If you educate a man, you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. PT. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU India is now a leading country in the field of women education. Women education in India has also been a major concern of both the government and civil society as educated women can play a very important role in the development of the country. Education is target of women empowerment because it enables them to responds to the challenges, to face their traditional role and change their life. So that we can’t neglect the importance of education in reference to women empowerment India is poised to be coming superpower, a developed country by 2020. The growth of women’s education in rural areas is very slow. This obviously means that still large womenfolk of our country are illiterate, the weak, backward and exploited. Education of women in the education of women is the most powerful tool of change of position in society. Education also brings a reduction in inequalities and functions as a means of improving their status within the family. EFA programmer was launched in 2002 by the Government of India after its 86th Constitutional Amendment made education from age 6-14 the fundamental right of every Indian child. But position of girl’s education is not improving according to determined parameter for women. To know the present position of women education, this study conducted by us. And study concluded that the rate of women education is increasing but not in proper manner. Historically, women have been central to the shaping of Indian legal thought and scholarship but they have seldom done so from – or exclusively from – within law schools. In this chapter, we trace the history of the early women legal academics and contrast their demographics to their more contemporary counterparts. In doing so, we argue that while increasingly favourable to female law students, law schools have been historically entrenched in patriarchal scripts that continue to harm the female legal academic in India. Instead, it is from counter-institutions like social science schools, professional practice and progressive think tanks that women have been better able to sustain their legal voice, academic credibility and activism.

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