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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LITERACY RATE, DECISION MAKING AND WORKING STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA: A STUDY BASED ON THE NFHS DATA 2019-2020 Sreelakshmi Sudhakaran, 2 nd Year B.Ed Social Science (2022-2024) St. Joseph College of Teacher Education for Women, Ernakulam sreelakshmisudhakaran311@gmail.com ABSTRACT Talking about the rights of women is an easy task and ensuring them all the rights they are in need of is a painful work. The recently published National Family Health Survey 2019-2020 (NFHS 5.0) gives a detailed analysis on the life of women in India. According to the latest sex ratio data, there are 1020 females for every 1000 males in India. The same NFHS 2019-2020 data shows some kind of a shocking trends that the various Indian states do face. The female literacy rate on an average is 70.3% for India and the work participation rate of females were 23.5% according to the