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Abstract Education is rightly acknowledged as the most effective tool for empowerment. Empowerment is a process in which women gain control over their own lives by knowing and claiming their rights at all levels of society and are fully involved in the economic political and social decision making process. The present investigation intends to study empowerment of women in relation to their educational background. The main objective of the study is to compare the level of economic, political and social empowerment among more educated and less educated women. Descriptive survey method was adopted for conducting this study. The sample for the present study consisted of 100 women, selected on the basis of simple random sampling. Out of these 100 women, 50 women belonged to more educated and other 50 belonged to less educated category. A questionnaire was prepared and administered to study the empowerment level of women. Simple percentages were calculated for analyzing data. Findings reveal that more educated women are economically, socially and politically more empowered than the women who are less educated.