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Women in India have attained greatness through the ages – in political, academic and spiritual spheres. They enjoyed freedom and equal participation in public life in ancient India. In the Rig Veda, women are placed at the highest pedestal – ‘Yatr nariyastu poojayante ramante tatr devah’ or where women are worshipped, Gods preside there. The Taittriya Upanishad teaches us ‘Matridevo bhava’ or ‘Let your mother be God to you’.

Swami Vivekananda rightly said, “All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation which does not respect women has never become great”.

The principle of gender equality is also enshrined in the Indian Constitution. Not only does the Constitution grant equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Empowerment of women must be regarded as not only an element of our efforts towards gender equality but also a critical step for stimulating their full participation in nation building.

There is a common perception that money in the hands of women is put to different use than money in the hands of men. Consistent with this view, it is often observed that a relative increase in female income within the household leads to greater expenditures on children's nutrition and education.

these results are often obtained in environments where women do not work regularly over their lifetimes and where their incomes are a small fraction of the household budget.
Conclusion
Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time. The question that we ask in this paper is whether these new opportunities will increase mobility in future generations by changing the choices that parents make for their children. This paper exploits a unique setting — a group of tea plantations in South India where women have been employed in permanent wage labor