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"There is dearth of literature and research work emphasising the role of educated Muslim Women in their economic empowerment in terms of potential abilities, skills development, hidden leadership and risk taking abilities, entrepreneurial capacities and search for suitable livelihood activities to help as mechanisms for overall income generation and the well being of the Muslim family households. It is observed that majority of Muslim women household have unsatisfactory and inadequate educational 'dropout' status due to many socioeconomic, cultural and even religious constraints. It is also observed that if they had completed their education; they would have got more and better opportunities for economic empowerment. The Sachar Committee has rightly observed that, ""In many meetings women participants emphasised that given appropriate opportunities to work and get educated, they would 'manage' all the issues such as family orthodoxy, male dominance, controlled and unsecured appearances in public places and so called ghettoism and dynamics of identity crisis."" This observation needs to be further tested through research. It is against this background, this research work has analysed the aspirations of educated women households and how do they manage or face the constraints for economic empowerment in terms of self employment, salaried service sector employment or any other livelihood activities as support mechanism to enhancement of family income as well as well being of their kin and kith. Thus this is a very important work which must be read by all those who want to study Muslim women and also policy maker who are interested in improving a lot of Muslim women. "