Economic growth in India has been robust over the past period. Though, the caste disparities are cumulative, the condition of schedule caste women in India needs distinct consideration. They are one of the major socially isolated groups anywhere in the world, and make up 2% of the world’s total population. The focus of the paper was to explore the economic empowerment of scheduled caste women workers in Thoothukudi district. The research is based upon primary and secondary data both. The primary data was collected through a questionnaire designed exclusively for the study. The primary data were obtained from 120 scheduled caste women workers of Thoothukudi District using simple random sampling method. For data analysis, percentage analysis, tabulation, averages, standard deviation, t test, chi square test and probability analysis tools are used. The data relates to the month of May 2017. The economic impact of the quality of life of scheduled caste women was found high in the variables namely communication skill, selfhygiene and health, skill up gradation, accessibility of resources, standard of living and child care and child education. The mean score values of these variables are 3.76, 2.53, 3.57, 2.91, 4.14 and 3.75 respectively. The significant difference among the quality of life of scheduled caste women after getting employment by the reservations of seats is found high in all aspects of quality of life except technical guidance, decision making in family, sociability and purchase of assets and self-confidence since its respective’t’ statistic are not significant at 5 per cent level. Schedule caste women are in no way mediocre to other caste people. Government is providing many chances to advance the social, political, economic and educational conditions of schedule caste women.

Keywords: Empowerment; Informal; Inequality; Poverty Reduction; Sociological; Psychological.