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 of 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:

• Educational and vocational training for women which will enable them to seek jobs and become economically dependent. 
• Technological aids that will be labour saving devices and will lighten women’s burden, of heavy daily tasks. 
• Training for women in both formal and non-formal education. 
• Credit facilities to start small-scale industries/self employment. 
• Programmes of placing women in important positions at various levels.