Srilatha Batliwala

Srilatha Batliwala, a social activist, advocate of women's rights, scholar, and author of many books on empowerment of women is from Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), Karnataka, India. From the later part of the 1970s she has been engaged in linking "grassroots activism, advocacy, teaching, research, training," obtaining grants, and works of scholarly nature.

Empowerment of women came to defined in the middle of 1980s, which according to Baltiwala is a terminology which signified "welfare, upliftment, community participation, and poverty alleviation."

According to Baltiwala the empowerment laws related to women are easily passed in India but its implementation is tardy, and comparable to a similar situation in Egypt. She is also of the opinion that the "adverse reaction to organising and mobilizing" women's movements is on the rise compared to earlier times. Provided by Wikipedia