
The role of education in social transformation and progress is unchallengeable. Education ensures multiple dividends to a society. It is a great equalizer and emancipator. It empowers the individuals by providing skill and generating employment potentialities in them. Thus, education is the greatest change agent of a society. Viewed from such significance of education, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared it as the basic human right of every individual. The Paper deals with the Privileges of distance education availed by the today’s women. Twenty first century has brought in its trail a new hope for women. Dramatic changes have been taken place in the roles, responsibilities, attitudes and ambitions of women in the last few decades. Women have moved long steps ahead from their traditional role of wives, child producers, mothers, house makers and care takers. From the state of non-entity they have reached to a place where they have established their own identity in the modern society.