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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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

  3. Maternalism - Wikipedia

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    Maternalism is the public expression of domestic values associated with motherhood. [1] It centers on the language of motherhood to justify women's political activities, actions and validate state or public policies. [2] Maternalism is an extension of "empowered motherhood." [3] It defines itself as the extension of feminine moral values of ...

  4. 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.

  5. Jandy Nelson Celebrates ‘Generational Joy’ in New YA Novel ...

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    When The World Tips Over could be called many things: a family saga, a magical realism story and a fairytale, among them. For Nelson, however, the novel's setting of the fictional town of Paradise ...

  6. 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.

  7. Female education - Wikipedia

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    e. Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to ...

  8. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Although Islamic laws grants women property rights, they inherit less than men. Muslim family law reinforces the distinction between the public and private sphere of the family, particularly through male guardianship over spouses. [104] To continue female empowerment in the Arabic-speaking world, young Arab women need role models.

  9. Gender equality - Wikipedia

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    [99] [100] Family planning is particularly important from a women's rights perspective, as having very many pregnancies, especially in areas where malnutrition is present, can seriously endanger women's health. UNFA writes that "Family planning is central to gender equality and women's empowerment, and it is a key factor in reducing poverty". [101]