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Feminism. 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 ...
Joanna Griffiths. Joanna Griffiths (born c. 1984) [1] is a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, and publicist. She is the founder and CEO of Knix Wear, Inc., a women's undergarment brand. [2] [3]
Today the phrase “women’s empowerment” has eclipsed “community empowerment” and “employee empowerment.” It, too, came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. It, too, came to ...
Sara Hlupekile Longwe is a consultant on gender and development based in Lusaka, Zambia. She was the chairperson of FEMNET between 1997 and 2003. [1] She is the author of the Longwe Framework for Gender Analysis. Longwe describes herself as a radical feminist activist. [2]
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 to professional and parliamentary positions.
Women’s Empowerment in South Asia – Concepts and Practices (1993) [1] Srilatha Batliwala, a social activist, advocate of women's rights, scholar, and author of many books on empowerment of women is from Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), Karnataka, India. From the later part of the 1970s she has been engaged in linking "grassroots ...
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was established in 1873 and championed women's rights, including advocating for prostitutes and for women's suffrage. Under the leadership of Frances Willard , "the WCTU became the largest women's organization of its day and is now the oldest continuing women's organization in the United States."
Women's World Banking is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to women's economic empowerment through financial inclusion. Mission and vision [ edit ] The mission of the Women's World Banking global network is "to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial ...