Subject(s): Women Empowerment -- Sex Difference -- Handbook or kaipusthakam -- Gender and gender status, gender discrimination and women in Kerala, patriarchy, women and gender statues issues, importance of women empowerment, women movements, women and laws, women and media, -- participatory learning and action- for empowerment, Panchayat raj and women empowerment, Kudumbashree, projects, development planning and gender, gender status in decentralized planning and administration