Women Empowerment : Is it a Myth or a Reality ? Women Empowermen t as a concept was introduced at the International Women Conference in 1985, at Nairobi, which defined it as redistribution of social power and control of resources in favour of women. Women’s Empowerment is viewed as the procedure and the consequence of the procedure of – * Challenging the ideology of male domination and women’s subordination. * Enabling women to gain equal access to and control over the resources (material, human and intellectual). Dimensions of Women Empowerment: *The cognitive dimension refers to women understanding the conditions and causes of their subordination at the micro and macro level. * The psychological dimension includes the belief that women can act at personal and societal levels to improve their individual realities and the society in which they live. * The economic component requires that women have access to, and control over productive resou...
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