Women’s empowerment is one of the subjects included in the bilateral discussions between India and the United States, said Andrew T. Simkin, U.S. Consul General in Chennai, here on Friday. Speaking at the annual planning meeting of the ‘Working Women’s Forum’ (WWF) Mr. Simkin said a trend prevailed in the United States, where women with high educational qualifications and more income were married to men with lesser educational qualifications and lower income. Researchers said such a difference would lead to collapse of the families, but it proved wrong. Speaking on the occasion Jaya Arunachalam, founder of the WWF said the organisation had proposed to conduct vocational training programmes on computers, tailoring and music as the organisation realised that education alone would not suffice for empowering girl children. Sharing their experiences with the participants Parvathi said the Home run by the organisation was very useful to the orphaned or children of single parent. The children were provided education and when they grow older they show interest to help the Home run by the WWF, she added. On the occasion Mr. Simkin released the annual plan of WWF for 2010-2011. Uma Gopal Deb, Vice-President, Micro finance, Citibank, spoke.