Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. India stands second highest in density of population, in which 48.04 percent of female, which constitutes a major human resource next to men. The role of women empowerment is always related with education. As our father of Nation Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi once said “If you educate a man you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family”. From his words, one can understand that education is the most essential prerequisite for women empowerment. In fact, the higher education for women plays a vital role in making women an empowered. It brings a reduction in inequalities and functions as a means of improving their status within the family and develops the concept of participation. Educated women can contribute to the economic conditions of their home and improve the standard of living of their family. Education not only educates a woman but enables her to take decisions and accept responsibilities at her home and around the world. Even though women have made many advances still their inferior status to men continues to be a global phenomenon. Therefore, the educated women are essential to end gender bias. Here the present study focuses the role of higher education in empowering women.

Keywords: Women Empowerment, Education, Inequality, Gender Bias.