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  2. Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.

  3. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different ...

  4. Youth empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. [1]

  5. Gender empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Gender empowerment. Gender empowerment is the empowerment of people of any gender. While conventionally, the aspect of it is mentioned for empowerment of women, the concept stresses the distinction between biological sex and gender as a role, also referring to other marginalized genders in a particular political or social context.

  6. Empowerment In The Workplace - AOL

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    With companies struggling to survive and people having a difficult time finding work, there's one simple strategy that can drive revenues to great heights and make you a customer service superstar.

  7. Gabby Douglas and older sister Arielle talk Rio, female ...

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    The pair truly captures the power of female empowerment -- and show a little positivity can go a long way. So, it's no surprise the pair joined the #ActuallySheCan campaign, a movement for strong ...

  8. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure ( GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GEM is the United Nations Development Programme 's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access ...

  9. Community psychology - Wikipedia

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    Community psychology is concerned with the community as the unit of study. This contrasts with most psychology which focuses on the individual. Community psychology also studies the community as a context for the individuals within it, [1] and the relationships of the individual to communities and society.