Social security means the overall security for a person in the family, work place and society. Social security is a system to meet the basic needs as well as contingencies of life in order to maintain an adequate standard of living. It is not a charity rather a right. But women workers are living below the minimum accepted standards without adequate facilities and having very lower income that did not meet their daily needs of life. Objective of the study to know the present status of women workers in unorganized sector and to know the social. Security Act in India, the study is based on purely from secondary sources collected form different articles newspaper and websites.
Indian Railway-a name with which daily lives of crores of middle-class and low-class Indians are deeply involved, an industry that has eased up the lives of many at affordable price, and a very important tangible part of Indian Economy that flows throughout the country touching almost every corner always. The women workers are the part of our Indian railways as well as Indian economy. This paper attempts to analyze the issues and challeng Women Empowerment in Indian railways. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century especially Indian railways. Women empowerment it can also point to approaches regarding other trivialized genders in particular political or social contexts. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India railways are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. The study concludes by an observation that access to facilities, percentage of female worker and analyses of railways committee report for the empowerment of women.
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