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Empowerment feminism

Feminism has the goal of empowering women and is a process by which women and girls acquire power and control over their own lives and choices.

Women’s empowerment has five components: women’s sense of self-worth; their right to have and determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities and resources; their right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. (empowerment of women | European Institute for Gender Equality)

The main idea of women’s empowerment is giving women access to opportunities and resources. Empowerment feminism is a fight to achieve gender equality and improve the lives of women around the world.


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Global Issues: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. (n.d.). Peace Corps. Retrieved January 8, 2023, from https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/global-issues-gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment/#

guide, s. (n.d.). empowerment of women | European Institute for Gender Equality. European Institute for Gender Equality. Retrieved January 8, 2023, from https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1102

Suga, M., & Chen, Y. (n.d.). United Nations: Gender equality and women’s empowerment. the United Nations. Retrieved January 8, 2023, from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/