Know why women empowerment in India could still be a distant dream

Only a fifth of women who are working, decide on their own where to spend their earnings, finds the latest round of the National Family Health Survey. A staggering sixty-one per cent of working women say that such decisions are made jointly, while 17 per cent say that it's mostly the husband who makes such decisions. This situation appears to be unchanged over the past decade. 

On the other hand, the survey finds that roughly two-thirds of women now participate in major household decisions such as women’s health care, major household purchases and visits to their friends and family. In fact