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:

1. Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 

2. Hindu Succession Act of 1956. 

3. Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act of 1956. 

4. Dowry Prohibition (Amendment) Act of 1984 

5. 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 CM important positions at various levels.