Understanding Women’s Empowerment

Meaning, Quotes & How to Empower Women

What is women’s empowerment?

Women’s empowerment can be defined to promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability
to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and
others.

It is closely aligned with female empowerment – a fundamental human right that’s also key to
achieving a more peaceful, prosperous world.

In Western countries, female empowerment is often associated with specific phases of the
women’s rights movement in history. This movement tends to be split into three waves, the first
beginning in the 19th and early 20th century where suffrage was a key feature. The second wave
of the 1960s included the sexual revolution and the role of women in society. Third wave
feminism is often seen as beginning in the 1990s.

Women’s empowerment and promoting women’s rights have emerged as a part of a major global
movement and is continuing to break new ground in recent years. Days like International
Women’s Empowerment Day are also gaining momentum.

But despite a great deal of progress, women and girls continue to face discrimination and
violence in every part of the world.

Topics on women's empowerment:

The Women's Empowerment Principles

Quotes on women's empowerment

The global landscape of women's empowerment

Women’s empowerment can be defined to promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability
to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and
others.

It is closely aligned with female empowerment – a fundamental human right that’s also key to
achieving a more peaceful, prosperous world.

In Western countries, female empowerment is often associated with specific phases of the
women’s rights movement in history. This movement tends to be split into three waves, the first
beginning in the 19th and early 20th century where suffrage was a key feature. The second wave
of the 1960s included the sexual revolution and the role of women in society. Third wave
feminism is often seen as beginning in the 1990s.Women’s empowerment and promoting
women’s rights have emerged as a part of a major global movement and is continuing to break
new ground in recent years. Days like International Women’s Empowerment Day are also
gaining momentum.

But despite a great deal of progress, women and girls continue to face discrimination and
violence in every part of the world.

Topics on women's empowerment:

The Women's Empowerment Principles

Quotes on women's empowerment

The global landscape of women's empowerment

Why is empowering girls and women so important?

Real stories of women's empowerment

Marie: One last chance

Tabitha: Baking to give back

How can I empower women and girls?

How World Vision is helping empower women

750 million

women and girls alive today were married before the age of 18

1 in 5
women have experienced physical or sexual violence in the last 12 months

23.7 percent

representation of women in political offices

Source: United Nations

1. The Women's Empowerment Principles

Created in a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and UN Women, the Women’s
Empowerment Principles are used to empower women in the marketplace, workplace and
community.

The seven Principles are:

Principle 1: Create high-level corporate leadership for gender equality

Principle 2: Treat all people fairly at work, respecting and supporting non-discrimination and
human rights

Principle 3: Ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of all workers, whether male or female

Principle 4: Promote education, training and professional development for women

Principle 5: Implement supply chain, marketing practices and enterprise development that
empower women

Principle 6: Champion equality through community initiatives and advocacy

Principle 7: Measure and report publicly on progress to create gender equality

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2. Quotes on women's empowerment

By standing up for equality, women have helped other women speak up and empowered them.
Here are some examples of prominent women who have spoken out about women’s equality.

3. The global landscape of women's empowerment

Gender equality is a basic human right, and it is also fundamental to having a peaceful,
prosperous world.
But girls and women continue to face significant challenges all around the world. Women are
typically underrepresented in power and decision-making roles. They receive unequal pay for
equal work, and they often face legal and other barriers that affect their opportunities at work.

In the developing world, girls and women are often seen as less valuable than boys. Instead of
being sent to school, they are often made to do domestic work at home or are married off for a
dowry before they are adults. As many as 12 million underage girls are married every year.

While some progress is being made in various parts of the world, there is still a great deal left to
be done to right the problems of gender inequality.

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4. Why is empowering girls and women so important?

Empowering women is essential to the health and social development of families, communities
and countries.

When women are living safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potential.
contributing their skills to the workforce and can raise happier and healthier children. They are
also able to help fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

Barbara and Lulu, both four-years-old, walk home from school together at sunset.

A key part of this empowerment is through education. Girls who are educated can pursue
meaningful work and contribute to their country’s economy later in life. They are also four times
less likely to get married young when they have eight years of education, meaning that they and
their families are healthier.
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