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    What Is Women Empowerment?

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    The document discusses women empowerment in Pakistan. It defines women empowerment as strengthening women's ability to make strategic life choices and access opportunities to realize their full potential. In Pakistan, women have long suffered from oppressive patriarchal structures and social norms that restrict them. While women make up 49% of Pakistan's population, they remain underutilized in national development due to low education and empowerment levels, especially in politics which remains male-dominated. The document argues that empowering women does not necessitate disempowering men, and that both can hold power simultaneously for the benefit of society.

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    What Is Women Empowerment?

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    The document discusses women empowerment in Pakistan. It defines women empowerment as strengthening women's ability to make strategic life choices and access opportunities to realize their full potential. In Pakistan, women have long suffered from oppressive patriarchal structures and social norms that restrict them. While women make up 49% of Pakistan's population, they remain underutilized in national development due to low education and empowerment levels, especially in politics which remains male-dominated. The document argues that empowering women does not necessitate disempowering men, and that both can hold power simultaneously for the benefit of society.

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    The document discusses women empowerment in Pakistan. It defines women empowerment as strengthening women's ability to make strategic life choices and access opportunities to realize their full potential. In Pakistan, women have long suffered from oppressive patriarchal structures and social norms that restrict them. While women make up 49% of Pakistan's population, they remain underutilized in national development due to low education and empowerment levels, especially in politics which remains male-dominated. The document argues that empowering women does not necessitate disempowering men, and that both can hold power simultaneously for the benefit of society.

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    What Is Women Empowerment?

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    The document discusses women empowerment in Pakistan. It defines women empowerment as strengthening women's ability to make strategic life choices and access opportunities to realize their full potential. In Pakistan, women have long suffered from oppressive patriarchal structures and social norms that restrict them. While women make up 49% of Pakistan's population, they remain underutilized in national development due to low education and empowerment levels, especially in politics which remains male-dominated. The document argues that empowering women does not necessitate disempowering men, and that both can hold power simultaneously for the benefit of society.

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    What is women empowerment?

    Women empowerment is one of the most significant factors which is presently being examined
    in nearly all developing countries. In this research paper, an attempt is made to investigate the
    determinants which have an influence on women empowerment in Pakistan.
    Introduction
    Women’s empowerment is the process of strengthening women. Strengthening can be defined
    from multiple ways but in case of discussing women’s strengthening , strengthening implies
    allowing women who are on the outside of the decision-making process into it.it also refers to
    the way towards expending women’s access to control over strategic life choices and actions
    that influence them to access to the open doors that permit them completely to understand
    their abilities. It implies control over resources and decisions.
    “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you; we
    are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within
    the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable
    condition in which our women have to live.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 1944
    History
    Before 1980s, women’s empowerment was not taught or even empowered in state funded
    schools and society on the loose. But in 1987, the United States Congress devoted the period of
    March as National Women's History Month. Every year, the president gives a decree regarding
    the accomplishments of ladies. Since the commitment began in 1987, schools the nation over
    have made Women's History Month a fundamental piece of the educational program.
    Women empowerment in Pakistan
    In 1995, nearly a half-century after the creation of Pakistan, the National Report for the Fourth
    UN World Conference for Women had to admit that women "continue to suffer in the face of
    oppressive patriarchal structures, rigid orthodox norms and stifling socio-cultural customs and
    traditions in Pakistan”.
    Politics is a domain of power, and in Pakistan it is emphatically male ruled. According to
    population indicators report of World Bank 2011, “Women constitute 49% of the Pakistan’s
    population, being unutilized in the national development due to their low skill, less education
    and less empowerment in the realm of politics”. Patriarchal setup and social stereotypes
    dismiss their capabilities and create persistent hurdles in their way of empowerment. Major
    political positions are still in the possession of men while ladies are delimited to delicate
    profiles just, which at last risk their degree of strengthening in Pakistan.
    Men and women are substantial part of any society but in male dominated societies, female
    population is the denied and underestimated gathering of society. If men and women were
    created equal, the phenomenon of empowerment of women illustrates that initially they have
    been disempowered, the wonder of strengthening of ladies represents that at first they have
    been debilitated and as a backslide, they are urged to hold some power for the prosperity of
    the family or the general public however most importantly, for themselves. Empowerment of
    women is generally seen in relation to men. The status of men is the estimating device for
    scaling how much strengthening is required with respect to women. On the other hand, the
    empowerment of women is also seen as a threat to the singular rule of men, but it needs to be
    clarified that empowering women does not imply disempowering men; they can both remain in
    power simultaneously. Such a strengthening is based, not just limited to the physical or
    material parts of life yet it additionally reflects their intellectual and emotional and this
    relationship is complementary in nature.

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