The strategies for empowerment of women can be classified as legal, social and economic.

1. Legal Strategies: After Independence, several laws were drafted with the aim to treat women on par with men. 

Some of the legislation are as follows:

• Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 
•  Hindu Succession Act of 1956. 
• Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act of 1956. 
• Dowry Prohibition (Amendment) Act 1984 
• Domestic Violence Act 2005 etc.

2. Social Strategies: 

Social strategies are as follows:

• Establishment of Women Welfare Services. 
• Legal literacy of women through mass media. 
• Help of neighbours to be sought in the cases of abused women.
• Conducting public education and awareness programmes in order to help women. 
• Males are also to be educated to realize their new roles in the changed times and the necessity of their own contribution to family life.

3. Economic Strategies: 

Economic strategies are as follows:

1. Educational and vocational training for women which will enable them to seek jobs and become economically dependent. 

2. Technological aids that will be labor-saving devices and will lighten women’s burden, of heavy daily tasks. 

3. Training for women in both formal and non-formal education. 

4. Credit facilities to start small-scale industries/self employment. 

5. Programmes of placing women in important positions at various levels.