Women Empowerment - A Cause for Increasing Divorce Rate in India or in other country.

I think women empowerment leads to betterment of society in all aspect such as :

1. Children got good initial primary education from their mom.
2. She can take decision of family interest too.
3. Crime against women decreases.
4. Dowry system reduced.
5. Involvement of women increase in politics.

I believe that women empowerment has been tremondously instrumental in bringing awareness of rights and opportunities to women. As the sense of high self-esteem has grown stronger, the today's women are not ready to suffer and compromise with the marriage that is based on male's superior role. Due to the increasing presence of the women on civil, political, professional and social platforms, they can no more stick to their traditional role as a homemaker or give more time to it. The result is dissatisfaction of both the spouses. The husbands emphasize on her duties whereas the wives wants to reach out. The wife who is educationally sound and financially well off, does not see the requirement of clinging on to the troubled marriage. The husband cannot see more beyond his male ego or equally participate in household responsibilities. And so, I guess people turn to divorce as easy option to put an end to their continuous worries.

While the goal of women empowerment aims at equality of status and opportunities to women, the patriachal social set is lagging far behind to understand the objective behind it. Hope to have this gap reduced in near future.