Women’s empowerment means that women have the ability and right to fully participate economically, socially, culturally and politically without being discriminated on basis of their gender. We have made a long way in promoting women’s right.
Empowering Women: Progress, Challenges, and the Urgent Need for Equality
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Women’s empowerment is about granting women the ability and right to fully participate in all aspects of life without discrimination based on their gender. While significant strides have been made in promoting women’s rights, there is still much work to be done.
In recent decades, women have achieved remarkable progress and shattered glass ceilings. The success of women as heads of state and CEOs has demonstrated that when given freedom and trust, women can be equal to, or even surpass, men. However, many women continue to face societal challenges. In various parts of the world, women are either confined to traditional roles as wives and mothers or unjustly deemed the “inferior sex” plagued by physical and mental weaknesses.
Despite the evolving roles and power of women, it is evident that not all women are created equal and not all women are able to contribute to society’s betterment. Let’s examine some critical facts that shed light on the ongoing gender disparities:
- According to the UN Foundation, meeting the need for family planning and maternal and newborn health services could prevent at least 250,000 maternal deaths and up to 1.7 million newborn deaths.
- In the USA, one in five female undergraduates has experienced some form of sexual assault while in college, highlighting the pervasive issue of gender-based violence.
- Equal participation of women in the labor force could lead to a 5 percent increase in national income in the U.S., 9 percent in Japan, and a staggering 27 percent in India.
- Despite women contributing around two-thirds of the world’s working hours, they earn only 10 percent of the world’s income.
- Women produce half of the world’s food but own only 1 percent of its land, illustrating the disparities in land ownership and property rights.
- Out of the 900 million adults worldwide who lack literacy skills, approximately two-thirds are women, emphasizing the gender gap in education.
- As of June 2016, only 22.8 percent of all national parliamentarians were women, indicating slow progress in achieving gender-balanced representation.
- Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges in women’s education, with almost 50 percent of young women having limited or no access to education.
With over 750 million women and girls worldwide married before their 18th birthday, it is evident that child marriage remains a pressing issue.
Based on these facts, it becomes evident that women are not treated equally to men, making women’s empowerment an urgent necessity in our times. Celebrating International Women’s Day is crucial, but it is equally vital to evaluate the status of women year-round and ensure that everyone, regardless of gender or race, contributes to the richness of our society.
Let us join together in championing women’s rights, promoting gender equality, and working towards a future where women’s empowerment is not just a celebration, but a fundamental reality. By empowering women, we empower societies and pave the way for a more inclusive and prosperous world.
Top Quotes About Women’s Empowerment
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Theresa
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Oprah Winfrey
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelo
I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
Condoleezza Rice
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Georgia O’Keeffe
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs the most.
Kelly Cutrone
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together
Marilyn Monroe
Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.
Tory Johnson
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Diane Mariechild
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn’t have what it takes. They will say, Women don’t have what it takes.
Clare Boothe Luce
You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.
Chris Evert
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation
Brigham Young
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on Earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet
Susan B. Anthony
Look your best – who said love is blind?
Mae West
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
Madeleine K. Albright
If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.
Angelina Jolie
If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.
Sallie Krawcheck
If I had to pick myself up and do it all over again, I would do it even better this time
Sam Walton
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself
Ethel Barrymore
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Melinda Gates
Love makes your soul crawl out of its hiding place
Zora Neale Hurst
When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.
Bette Davis
Leadership is not about men in suits. It is a way of life for those who know who they are and are willing to be their best to create the life they want to live.
Kathleen Schafer
Confidence comes not only from always being right, but not fearing to be wrong
Anonymous
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else
Judy Garland
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world
Ashley Rickards
I am willing to put myself through anything, temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.
Diana Nyad
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Barbara Corcoran
This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
Diana Nyad
It’s never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliot
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow
Anthony Robbins
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
Billie Jean King
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind
Virginia Woolf
You can’t be better tomorrow, if you can’t stop thinking about yesterday.
Anonymous
Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.
Edna Gardner Whyte
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then
Diana Ross
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
Success is how high you bounce once you hit bottom.
Patton
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks
Shannon L. Alder
Well-behaved women seldom make history
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold
Helen Keller
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you
Maya Angelou
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.
Estée Lauder
Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with
Michelle Obama
Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé Knowles Carter
There are 2 ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has
Margaret Mead
It is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly
Tuchy Palmieri
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day
Janis Joplin
When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.
Bethenny Frankel
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger
The most effective way to do it, is to do it
Amelia Earhart
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains
Anne Frank
I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become
Oprah Winfrey
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go
Taylor Swift
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.
Annie Leibovitz
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel
Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Helen Keller
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.
Thuli Madonsela
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world
Virginia Woolf
If you want everything, You first have to give everything.
Lao Tzo
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination
Mae Jemison
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
Put your heart, mind and soul into the smallest acts, that’s the secret of success.
Swami Sivanandia
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose
Tom Krause
It needs to be said and heard: it’s OK to be who you are
Hailee Steinfeld
You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.
Katie Couric
Women hold up half the sky
Mao Zedong
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts
Nikki Giovanni
How many people walk through this world with a memory of you? Impact someone’s life with the little things you do!
Cole Redding
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself
Anna Quindlen
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
J.K. Rowling
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