An Empirical Investigation of The Factors Affecting Women's Empowerment in The Karur District
Keywords:
Women's empowerment, political engagement, mobility, gender equality, women's perspective, the social and economic contextAbstract
"Women Empowerment" is currently all the rage in a lot of countries. The concepts of "equality of women and men" and "women empowerment" are timeless and applicable everywhere. What we mean when we speak about empowering women is building a society where they have more say in important decisions. They make their own decisions while keeping societal and individual interests in mind. This topic is highly significant to the development agenda, as highlighted by a Millennium Development Goal that aims to advance gender parity and women's empowerment (UN 2002). Emancipation can be understood from a variety of perspectives. The term "empowerment" describes the process of giving people more agency in the many spheres of society, including but not limited to: politics, education, religion, and culture, as well as in negotiating with and gaining access to these institutions. This intervention's major research foci were female empowerment and the factors that determine it.
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