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titre: "Understanding women’s empowerment"
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description: "Women’s empowerment can be defined as the promotion of women’s sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices."
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publie_le: 2021-11-23T12:27:00+00:00
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Women’s empowerment can be defined as the promotion of 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 linked to women’s empowerment – a basic human right that is also essential to achieving a more peaceful and prosperous world. In Western countries, women’s empowerment is often associated with specific phases of the women’s rights movement in history. This movement tends to fall into three waves, the first beginning in the 19th and early 20th centuries when suffrage was a key element. The second wave in the 1960s included the sexual revolution and the role of women in society. Third wave feminism is often considered to begin in the 1990s.

Women’s empowerment and the promotion of women’s rights have emerged as part of a major global movement and continue to innovate in recent years. Days like International Women’s Empowerment Day are also gaining momentum.

But despite much progress, women and girls continue to face discrimination and violence in every region of the world.

## The principles of women’s empowerment

The Women’s Empowerment Principles are used to empower women in the marketplace, in the workplace and in the community.

The seven principles are :

1. Create high-level corporate leadership for gender equality
2. Treating all people fairly in the workplace, respecting and supporting non-discrimination and human rights
3. To ensure the health, welfare and safety of all workers, male and female
4. Promote education, training and professional development of women
5. Implement supply chain, marketing practices and business development that empower women
6. Advocating for equality through community initiatives and advocacy
7. Measure and publicly report on progress toward gender equality