The empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of all developing countries in the world. Women empowerment is a matter of key concern in national and international policymaking and activities of social life. Nations cannot achieve their development goals if their women are discriminated. Significance of the issue provided impetus to conduct this study. The book showed that micro credit help to increase womens access to micro-finance, generate new income earning opportunities, and to enhance social mobilization and create formal network, norms and trust for collective action. The book is an endeavor to measure womens economic, political, sociocultural, legal and interpersonal or familial empowerment to scrutinize different activities at various economic, political, sociocultural, legal and familial spheres of women at the rural area of Bangladesh in family, community and national level. The findings suggest that, micro credit and its supportive programs have lead to a remarkable enhancement in social network formation and development, an improved status in family and community, increased mobility and to some extent also greater self-confidence

Md. Rahman is currently a senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Northern University Bangladesh. He has completed B.S.S and M.S.S from Dhaka University and secured first class 2nd position both BSS & MSS examination. His research areas are public health,natural hazard and disaster, women empowerment,ethnic groups,displacement & forced migration etc.