Empowerment
Economic Empowerment
CARE defines women’s economic empowerment as the process by which women increase their right to economic resources and power to make decisions that benefit themselves, their families and their communities.
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Education
Girls’ education goes beyond getting girls into school. It is also about ensuring that girls learn and feel safe while in school; have the opportunity to complete all levels of education acquiring the knowledge and skills to compete in the labor market.
Social Empowerment
What sets Women for Women International apart is our integrated approach. We work on both women’s economic and social empowerment.
Psychological
Women’s subordinate position is not natural but socially constructed and forced upon them. The mechanism through which patriarchy operates is culture. The devaluation of women has been carried out through culture to establish it as a divine truth. This constructed truth is internalized by women as well as merged with schema of “feminine identity”. Thus addressing the schema of being “ideal women” becomes essential to overcome patriarchal oppression. Further women need a comprehensive empowerment which includes the psychological empowerment of women along with social, political and economic.
Violence
Population-level surveys based on reports from victims provide the most accurate estimates of the prevalence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. A 2013 analysis conduct by WHO with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South Africa Medical Research Council, used existing data from over 80 countries and found that worldwide, 1 in 3, or 35%, of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or non-partner sexual violence.
Equality
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. There has been progress over the last decades: More girls are going to school, fewer girls are forced into early marriage, more women are serving in parliament and positions of leadership, and laws are being reformed to advance gender equality. Despite these gains, many challenges remain: discriminatory laws and social norms remain pervasive, women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership, and 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 report experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period.