4 Questions on the need of women empowerment
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Women's empowerment is the process of empowering women. [1][2] Empowerment can be defined in many ways, however, when talking about women's empowerment, empowerment means accepting and allowing people (women) who are on the outside of the decision-making process into it. Many people think that the days of woman fighting for rights are over but those people are wrong because 1 out of every 3 women has been sexually harassed or catcalled in public by random men they don’t know. Every day women are put down and told how to act and that they were asking for it if you wear that making woman feel that it is their fault, it is not. Many celebrities are all for girl power such as Liza Koshy and Lilly Singh (who has her own late night show and has won many awards and also raised money for #girllove and other charities)
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I recently shared a women’s economic empowerment training curriculum, which has been hugely successful across East Africa, with an organization that I work with in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese organization responded to it by asking, “But how do we teach our women to be empowered when even the little they have is taken from them by their husbands?”
This is a difficult question to answer. What does it mean to empower women in a context where traditional cultural roles and norms dictate a lack of societal value and rights for women? What does it mean in a post-conflict situation where many still face physical security issues in their daily lives? In much of the world, women still cannot own property, open a bank account, go to a public market and do not even have the basic control over their household income to ensure it’s spent on their family.
Situations where women are locked out of the economic system and processes require modifications to programs that have been successful in other contexts or geographic areas.
Often, what is needed is not so much of a change in methodology, but rather an expansion of program scope to include a sociological analysis, community sensitization and advocacy. Think for a moment about the definition of empowerment: to give authority or legal power to someone. If we look at the civil rights movement in the U.S., it is clear it couldn’t have been accomplished merely through quotas or empowerment training; a shift had to happen in individuals, communities, the government and throughout society.