women empowerment
Former First Lady Michelle Obama greets students during a Room to Read event with First Lady Bun Rany of Cambodia in support of the Let Girls Learn initiative, at Hun Sen Prasat Bakong High School in Siem Reap , Cambodia, March 21, 2015. Women's empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics . It can also point to the approaches regarding other trivialized genders in a particular political or social context. Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to control and benefit from resources, assets , income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being. [1] While often interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment refers to people of any gender, stressing the distinction between biological and ...