Essays on Empowerment

Women have been considered one of the main minority groups for decades now. Women didn’t have the same rights men had. They lacked basic rights, equal pay, and the right to vote. But when they got tired of the oppression, discrimination, and lack of opportunities,...

Abstract Women play an important role in the building up of every economy. Women who form almost one half of the world’s population were lagged behind the development. According to Swami Vivekanand, ‘…… there is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the...

The second influx of the women’s activist development in the United States started during mid-1960’s and kept going all through late 1970’s. The motivation behind the women’s activist development was to reserve an option to cast a ballot and have indistinguishable equivalent rights from male...

It is clear from the above literature that it is possible for women in mining to be empowered by Affirmative Action and Employment Equity, but they find it difficult to gain respect they deserve from males; there can be deduced that most of the participants...

Feminism is the advocacy of equality between men and women socially, politically, and economically. In Dai Sijie’s novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the narrator and his friend, Luo, are set on civilizing a young village girl who they meet during their re-education, known...

Introduction ‘‘I Want a Wife’’ written by Judy Brady, in 1971, after the Women’s Rights Movement began in the USA, is an important feminist statement that makes readers think and question the place of women in society. Brady tries to emphasize that women are not...

Judith Plaskow is one of the leading scholars of feminist theology. Her book, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, was the first book of Jewish feminist theology ever written.[1] She has also written an additional book, a collection of essays, has co-edited...

Throughout the Middle ages, women in society were completely dominated and controlled by men, making their life’s difficult and unequal at the time. They were taught to be obedient and subservient to their male counterparts, which in turn gave them little chance for any independence....

The third wave is a book written by sociologist and futurologist by Alvin Toffler in 1980. It is a sequel to the future shock, published in 1970, and the second is a trilogy that was completed with power shift: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the...

Released nineteen years ago, Legally Blonde, a movie appeared to be about a ditzy blonde who falls right into the typical female stereotype of wearing pink, with a touch of glamour and small little dog on the side for good measure. Surely it would have...

There are numerous incidents of the violations of human rights and some of them are described below : Issue1: With the rising crimes, violations, scams and scandals human rights are being violated and taken for granted and in the recent years conditions have become worst...

When marginalised social groups gain empowerment and the ability to be seen and heard to achieve positive social, political and economic changes, there is extensive agreement that they will arrive at a successful outcome (Cornwall & Brock, 2005). Participation and empowerment, when exploited for the...

The world of today where women have unlimited possibilities has by far and to some extent had its problems. We can see that they are taking this empowerment overboard by trying to emulate people that that they look up to in everything. Plastic surgery is...

Women empowerment means emancipation of women from the vicious grips of social, economical, political, caste and gender-based discrimination. It means granting women the freedom to make life choices. Women empowerment does not mean ‘deifying women’ rather it means replacing patriarchy with parity. In this regard,...

With the policies initiation and definition follows some problematic discussions concerning; power dynamics, representation, categorising, homogenising and empowering, and the aim of equality. Generally, one can ask how far the Affirmative Action and the Employment Equity policy reaches in the process of possible or actual...

The 1994 Disney film Mulan portrays individualism to motivate younger girls to pursue their dreams. The push for feminism is shown through Mulan’s individualistic behavior, while it breaks some of China’s taboo behaviors regarding the mannerisms of a woman. Lauren Dundes currently teaches at McDaniel...

The story Sister Lilith by Fanonne Jeffers is written in African American language where the narrator, ‘Lilith’ tries to reclaim her identity. The storyline is Afrofuturistic because human creation started in Africa and the concept of feminism was introduced by Lilith and it is now...

Financial inclusion refers to process of economic offerings at reasonable costs to the ignored or abandoned sections of the society of the economic system. Access to formal finance can accelerate job creation, reduce financial stress and huge investments in human capital. Without sufficient access to...

Introduction From the latter part of the 20th century and especially since the advent of the 21st century, modernization, globalization, and concomitant legislation for human rights and equity has opened up more space for women in leadership, though the results have been limited in some...