WOMEN

EMPWOERMENT
Group Members:

Towsif ur Rashid
~082 095 030~
Tanveer Ahmed
~082 001 030~
Shamima Nasrin
~082 270 030~
 Empowerment
Definition:
•A social action process by which
individuals, communities, and
organizations gain mastery over their
lives in the context of changing their
social environment to improve equity
and quality of life.

•A process of awareness, capacity

building leading to greater participation,
effective decision-making power and
control leading to transformative action.
 Women Empowerment
>Empowerment of women is a process
whereby women become able

•to organize themselves to increase their own

self- reliance
•to assert their independent right to make
choices
•to control resources which will assist in their
social life
 Role of Women
•Chief architect of family
•The first teacher of children
•Supply of labor power
•Contribution to industrial labor
force
•Service sector development
•Socio-cultural development
•Progress of handicrafts
•Political development
•Creation of civilized society
 Need for Women Empowerment
•Social justice and protection yet to be realized.

•Discrimination, exploitation and inequalities

•Developing self – esteem and confidence

•Realize their potential

•Enhance their collective bargaining power.

Cont…
•Ensure fundamental rights

•Capacity building and skill development

•Enhance the decision making power

•Participation and greater control

•Develop leadership qualities

 CRITICAL AREA OF CONCERNS AND
CHALLENGES

•Financial constraint •Education and training of women

•Low mobility •Women and Health
•Low ability to bear risk •Women in Power and Decision-
•Social status Making
•Violence against women •Women in difficult circumstances
•Women in unorganized •Human Rights of Women
sector
•Women and the Media
 How to achieve it
Economic empowerment:
• Poverty eradication
• Control over income
• Access to employment
• Women’s participation in
macro-economic policies
• Enhance productivity and
skills in agriculture
• Ensure provision of training,
employment and income-
generation activities
 How to achieve it (Cont..)
Socio-Cultural:
• Women’s freedom of movement
• Lack of discrimination against daughters
• Commitment to educating daughters
• Participation in extra-familial groups and social
networks
• Women’s literacy and access to a broad range of
educational options
• Positive media images of women
 How to achieve it (Cont..)
Interpersonal:
• Participation in domestic decision-
making

• Control over sexual relations

• Ability to make childbearing decisions

• Shifts in marriage and kinship systems

• Political, legal, religious support for such

shifts

• Options for divorce

 How to achieve it (Cont..)
Legal Empowerment:
• Domestic support for
exercising rights

• Campaigns for right’s

awareness

• Effective local enforcement of

legal rights

• Laws supporting women’s

rights, access to resources and
options
 How to achieve it (Cont..)
Political Empowerment:
• Knowledge of political system
• Means of access to it
• Domestic support for political
engagement
• Exercising the right to vote
• Women’s involvement or
representation in local bodies of
government
• Women’s representation in regional
and national bodies of government
 How to achieve it (Cont..)
Psychological Empowerment:
• Self-esteem

• Self-efficacy

• Psychological well-being

• Collective awareness of injustice

• Systemic acceptance of women’s

entitlement and inclusion
Values of an Empowered Woman
•Explore own thoughts, emotion, desires;

•Recognize positive and negative characteristics;

•Set goals and work toward them;

•Knows self through own creative work;

•Adaptable to changes and increased diversity in one’s

thinking

•Have a sense of purpose, achievement and dignity

Values of an Empowered Woman
(Cont..)
•Create her own definition of herself rather than accept
others’ definition of her

•Struggles to overcome conventional stereotypical picture of

femininity (submissive, quiet, unintelligent)

•Do not require support from man to survive

•Self-reliant, independent, and autonomous. Learn to

understand economics and how to make money

•Financially self sufficient and therefore economically

independent of men.
 Achievements Through Empowerment
•More opportunities for education

•Stronger legal rights in many countries

•Taking leadership roles in local communities

•Playing active role in peace movement

•Women's rights are well-established by international

agreements

•Crediting women for what they have been responsible for

•affirming women’s capacity to be capable, intelligent and

ethical
 Conclusion
•Create a general awareness

•Understand the necessity and problems of women’s

empowerment in all the top policy and decision making

•Invest in women's capabilities and empower them to

exercise their choices
 For every woman who takes a step
toward her own liberation,
There is a man who finds that the way
to freedom has been made a little
easier.