INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD

In India, a woman suffers from much repugnant social practice, religious traditions, and rites from time centuries-old due to her low literacy rate, less decision-making power, less ingress to the occupation, or work opportunity than men. This desperate situation gave rise to the dependency of women on men's overall lifecycle. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a 2030 agenda of the United Nations. In this sense, it is a crucial step to enroute gender equality as the successor of the millennium development goals (MDGs). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is actively progressive at the global level in making its strategic plan (2018-2021) for agenda 2030 to mainstream gender so that everyone will feel self-determination and prospects to thrive in society.

India is at the verge of turning point to emerge as a significant hub for promoting at large scale, a dynamic start-up ecosystem. The start-up India wave, if adjusted for social enterprises, has provided the possibility to unravel a portion of our most societal issues through entrepreneurship and change the substance of India for good. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In addition to being a fundamental human right, gender equality is also a precondition for a world that is stable, affluent, and sustainable. The objective of the paper is to study the importance of gender equality for sustainable development, the role of women at present, role of education for empowering women. Given the patriarchal nature of Indian society, women are frequently subjected to discrimination and are outnumbered by their male counterparts. Therefore, it is very important to know about gender issues and how those issues can be solved. Education is one of the key elements to empower women and girls and to bring parity in the society. The government must take the lead in developing policies, organizing engagement and awareness programmes, providing health care services, and other things to ensure the viability of the country should be provided for the benefits of society and humanity at large.

Social enterprise encounters this status quo, putting people before profits. This study aims to determine how effectively women’s social enterprises respond against gender discrimination to directly empower women. Social entrepreneurs believe women’s equality is built by its impact on beneficiaries, other entrepreneurs, employees and societal norms. It has the power to contribute more. It is necessary to support society by developing more social enterprises through providing jobs for other women with economic freedom, prestige and social recognition.