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2. 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 ...

3. 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.

4. UN Women - Wikipedia

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   The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women is charged with advocating for the rights of women and girls, and focusing on a number of issues, including violence against women and ...

5. How 'Women's Empowerment' Lost Its Meaning - AOL

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   But the language of empowerment spread quickly to technocratic bureaucracies, including the World Bank, where women’s empowerment was an add-on to top-down lending programs, offering tiny loans ...

6. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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   Gender Empowerment Measure. 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 ...

7. Female education - Wikipedia

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   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 education.

8. 50 powerful women empowerment quotes that'll leave you ... - AOL

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   50 powerful women empowerment quotes that'll leave you inspired. Fadzai Mushayamunda. Women’s History Month is a welcome reminder to celebrate the incredible efforts of all women — past, ...

9. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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   Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...