Definition taken from UN document. Link is provided at the bottom for further reading.
Excerpt:
What,then, is women's empowerment? Women's empowerment has five components:
women's sense of self-worth;
their right to have and to determine choices;
their right to have access to opportunities and resources;
their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home;
and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a もっと見る just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.
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Excerpt:
What,then, is women's empowerment? Women's empowerment has five components:
women's sense of self-worth;
their right to have and to determine choices;
their right to have access to opportunities and resources;
their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home;
and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a もっと見る just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.
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