Question

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• ''education leads to empowerment of women''​

Answer 1

Empowerment can be viewed as means of creating a social environment in which one can make decisions and  make choices either individually or collectively for social transformation. The empowerment strengthens the  innate ability by way of acquiring knowledge, power and experience.

“If you educate a man you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Women empowerment is the pivotal part in any society, state or country. It is a woman who plays a dominant  role in the basic life of a child.

Education is the key factor for women empowerment, prosperity, development and welfare. Discrimination of women from womb to tomb is well known. There is continued inequality and vulnerability of women in all sectors and women oppressed in all spheres of life, they need to be empowered in all walk of life.

Education is a major tool in empowering women, first, it lowers the chances for early marriages, it exposes the girl child to various opportunities, it reduces the number of children a woman is likely to have hence reducing the burden of care giving, education makes the women to gain access to mainstream employment sectors and also make them to some extent better decision makers.

The term women’s empowerment means:

• Acquiring knowledge and understanding of gender relations and the ways in which these relations may  be changed.

• Developing a sense of self-worth, a belief in one’s ability to secure desired changes and the right to  control one’s life.

• Gaining the ability to generate choices exercise bargaining power.

• Developing the ability to organize and influence the direction of social change, to create a more just  social and economic order, nationally and internationally.

As issues of women’s economic empowerment and gender equality gain momentum on the global stage, nations across the globe are implementing incredible measures to reduce the gender gap and promote economic equality.

Ways to Empower Women for Sustainable Development

1. Place women as leaders and give them decision making roles
2. More Job Opportunities for Women
3. Invest in Women’s Entrepreneurial Ideas, Emotionally and Financially
4. Taking Action against Unpaid Labour Work
5. Mentoring Women Professionally and Personally

It is very important to encourage women to break free from their traditional roles and do away with gender stereotypes.