ECONOMIC AUTONOMY

Women’s well-being relative to men’s is an important link between gender and poverty. Women, irrespective of any kind of living arrangement they find themselves, should have the empowerment, including economic empowerment, to do what they want as active economic agents and to influence their own well-being and that of their families.

The states were ranked on the following:

• Decision Over Wife Earnings
• Widows Dispossessed Of Properties
• Women Asset Ownership