Women Empowerment – A Reflection in the
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Poems of “Mumbai Mirror” Eunice De Souza

Mrs.A MATHINI1, R.EZHILARASI2*

1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, SCSVMV University, Enathur, Kancheepuram (India).

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2 Research Scholar, Dept. of English, SCSVMV University, Enathur, Kancheepuram (India).

INTRODUCTION: Women’s Empowerment is a global issue in determining the status of women. The position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 20th century. It may be because of the awareness among women. We know that it has been very low in 18th & 19th centuries in India and other Countries. Women were treated like “objects”. In the name of marriage they can be bought and sold. Their dependence on men folk was total. But now women started to learn the possible ways to be independent in the society. Their monetary independence led them to the way to empowerment. Robert Blood (1965) observes, “Employment emancipates women from domination by their Husbands and secondarily, raises their Daughters from inferiority to their Brothers” (Blood and Wolfe, 1965). According to Dr. Nafi’s Sadik, the former Executive Director of UNFPA “Women are the heart of development”. Women are the agent to bring about better lives for billions of people in the developing countries as well as developed countries to bring sustainable development. The main aim of this research paper is to bring about the ideas about Empowerment of Women and barriers to the Women Empowerment through the poems of Eunice De Souza. Her poem reflects the socio-cultural life and domestic life of Indian Women. She chooses poetry as a medium to show the position of women in the society. She frequently shared her own personal experiences or the experience of her