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Women are economically empowered through small scale entrepreneurship programmes with the help of the Self Help Movement. Economic empowerment of women lead to the empowerment of women in several aspects such as socio- economic opportunity, property rights, political representation, social equality, personal rights, family development, and community development and at last the nation development. Globally, 48 out of 100 wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector are held by women. Only 24 out of 166 countries have achieved that target at all levels of education, but women still enter the labour market on an unequal basis to men, even after accounting for educational background and skills. As per the Secretary-General's pre-CSW report Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, while the three indicators under Goal 3 reflect important dimensions of gender inequality, the narrow focus of Goal 3 fails to address such critical issues as violence against women, inequalities in the division of unpaid care work, women's limited access to assets, violations of women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health and rights, and their unequal participation in private and public decision-making beyond national parliaments., women spend on average roughly twice as much or more time than men on unpaid domestic and care work. The report stresses that unless all dimensions of gender inequality are addressed, the overall Millennium Development Goal of gender equality and women's empowerment cannot be achieved