What is women empowerment?

Women's empowerment is the process in which women elaborate

and recreate what it is that they can be, do, and accomplish in a
circumstance that they previously were denied. Alternatively, it is
the process for women to redefine gender roles
that allows for them to acquire the ability to choose between
known alternatives whom have otherwise been restricted from
such an ability. There are several principles defining women's
empowerment such as, for one to be empowered, they must come
from a position of disempowerment. Furthermore, one must
acquire empowerment themselves rather than have it given to
them by an external party.
Now we are going to see some
influential women in today’s
modern world
1.Sudha Murthy
Sudha Murthy is an Indian engineer,
teacher, philanthropist and writer
in Kannada and English.
Murthy began her professional
career as a computer scientist and
engineer. She is the chairperson of
the Infosys Foundation and a
member of public health care
initiatives of the Gates Foundation.
2.Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is the state counsellor of
Myanmar and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize
for Peace. Born in Yangon, Myanmar,
in 1945, Aung San Suu Kyi spent much of her
early adult years abroad before returning
home and becoming an activist against the
brutal rule of dictator U Ne Win. She was 
placed under house arrest in 1989 and spent
15 of the next 21 years in custody, winning
the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace along the way.
 Suu Kyi was finally released from house
arrest in November 2010 and subsequently
held a seat in parliament for the National League
for Democracy (NLD) party. Following the
NLD's victory in 2016 parliamentary elections,
Suu Kyi became the de facto head of the
country in the new role of state counsellor.
3.Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi (June 9, 1949) is a former
Indian Police Service officer and is
currently a social activist. Her work
in the Indian Police Service has
been a beacon of light for women in
the service, a sector largely dominated
by men. Her outstanding work for
India and dedication to social causes
has made her a force to reckon with
in both government and non-
government arenas. She is a tennis
enthusiast and has competed and won
multiple tennis championships
around India.
4.Malala Yousafzai
As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in
Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to
receive an education. She was shot in the head by a
Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived and went on
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate
who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person
to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an
assassination attempt by the Taliban. Born on
July 12, 1997, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls'
education when she herself was still a child, which
resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against
her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when
she was traveling home from school. She survived
and has continued to speak out on the importance of
education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United
Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala.
In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
5.Oprah Winfrey
Billionaire media giant and philanthropist
Oprah Winfrey is best known for hosting her
own internationally popular talk show from
1986 to 2011. From there, she launched her
own television network, OWN.
Oprah Winfrey was born in the rural town
of Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29,
1954. In 1976, Winfrey moved
to Baltimore, where she hosted a hit
television chat show, People Are Talking.
Afterward, she was recruited by a
Chicago TV station to host her own morning
show. She later became the host of her own,
wildly popular program, The Oprah Winfrey
Show, which aired for 25 seasons, from
1986 to 2011. That same year, Winfrey
launched her own TV network, the Oprah
Winfrey Network (OWN).
6.Indra Nooyi
Executive who served as the
Chairperson and Chief
Executive Officer of PepsiCo,
the second-largest
beverage company in the world.
She attended the Yale School of
Management from 1978 to 1980.
She was ranked 10th in the list of
Forbes 100 most powerful
women in 2013.
7.Angelina Jolie
Born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975,
Angelina Jolie starred in the HBO biopic Gia before
earning an Academy Award for best supporting actress
for Girl, Interrupted. Jolie has become one of Hollywood
top marquee names, having starred in movies like
Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt and Changeling,
earning her first lead actress Oscar nod for the latter.
Jolie later had a huge international blockbuster with
Disney's Maleficent, in which she both starred and
executive produced. She's also directed the films In the
Land of Blood and Honey, Unbroken and By the Sea
A devoted humanitarian, Angelina Jolie was made a
Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in
2001. She has made headlines for her work to obtain
aid for refugees in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to
name just a few. In 2005, Jolie received the Global
Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations
Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of
refugee rights. She has continued to draw attention to
global issues.
"We Can Do It!" is an American World War II
wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller
in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an
inspirational image to boost worker morale.
The poster was very little seen during World
War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s
and widely reproduced in many forms, often
called "We Can Do It!" but also called
"Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a
strong female war production worker.
The "We Can Do It!" image was used to
promote feminism and other political issues
beginning in the 1980s. The image made the
cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994
and was fashioned into a US first-class mail
stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008
into campaign materials for several American
politicians, and was reworked by an artist in
2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming
prime minister of Australia. The poster is one
of the ten most-requested images at the
National Archives and Records Administration.
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