The term corporate social responsibility (CSR) describes / elucidates the business which has an obligation to society that extends beyond its obligation towards its shareholders or owners. The philosophy is basically to give back to the society, what it has taken from it; during profit-maximization and wealth creation it could take the form of community relationship, volunteer’s assistance programmes, healthcare initiatives, special education training programme and scholarship, preservation of cultural heritage and environment etc. CSR also called as CR or corporate citizenship and responsible business CSR is a concept whereby we can consider the interest of society by taking responsibility of the impact for their activities on customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, communities, and other stakeholders and the environment. Women’s empowerment has to be a core part of any development strategy as, apart from being denied equal status; women bear the brunt of poverty in poor societies. In many, if not most rural poor families in India, women do more physical labor than men, eat less, have less access to health and education facilities, get less wages, and bear the major part of the responsibility of bringing up children and looking after the family. This enormous contribution goes largely unrecognized. Women are even denied a role in household decision-making. Empowering women is thus clearly a basic human rights issue. It is also an issue linked closely to reducing poverty. There is a large body of evidence to show that empowerment of women leads to better progress in poverty reduction. In this paper, you will find empowerment and its relativity to women, growing role of women in society, corporate, social and issues related to women and few examples of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) towards women's empowerment in India. Moreover, most of the CSR initiatives that do target women often follow the welfare approach. The programmes seldom involve women as social actors and partners in their own development
