Women Entrepreneurship

 Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints or making an effort to seek them, raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training.^[1][2][3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different problems in society.^[3] They may have the opportunity to redefine gender roles or other such roles, which in turn may allow them more freedom to pursue desired goals.^[1]

Women's empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics. Economic empowerment allows women to control and benefit from resources, assets, and income. It also aids the ability to manage risk and improve women's well-being.^[4] It can result in approaches to support trivialized genders in a particular political or social context.^[5] While often interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment concerns people of any gender, stressing the distinction between biological and gender as a role. Women empowerment helps in boosting the status of women through literacy, education, training and awareness creation.^[6] Furthermore, women's empowerment refers to women's ability to make strategic life choices which had been previously denied them.^[7]

Nations, businesses, communities and groups may benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of female empowerment.^[8] Empowerment of women enhances the quality and the quantity of human resources available for development.^[9] Empowerment is one of the main procedural concerns when addressing human rights and development.

Empowerment means-  having control, or gaining further control;  having a say and being listened to;  being able to define and create from a women’s perspective;  being able to influence social choices and decisions affecting the whole society (not just areas of society accepted as women’s place)  being recognized and respected as equal citizens and human beings with a contribution to make (Griffen, 1987)

There are four waves of feminist movement. The first wave occurred in the 19th and early 20th century movement for women’s right to vote. The second wave in1960s and 1970s, moved for equal legal and social rights. The third wave began in the 1990s, refers to a continuation and reaction to second-wave. The fourth wave that began in 2012 and continues till now, talks about women empowerment. The fourth wave seeks greater gender equality by focusing on gendered norms and marginalization of women in society. Traditionally, women are considered marginalized group especially women of colors and transgender women. Fourth-wave feminist’s advocate for greater representation of these groups in politics and business, and argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporated the perspectives of all people. Fourth-wave of feminism argues for equal pay for equal work and the equal opportunities sought for girls and women and to overcome gender norms, for example expressing emotions and feelings freely, expressing themselves physically as they wish, and to be engaged parents to their children) and seek justice against assault and harassment is prominent.

There are four waves of feminist movement. The first wave occurred in the 19th and early 20th century movement for women’s right to vote. The second wave in1960s and 1970s, moved for equal legal and social rights. The third wave began in the 1990s, refers to a continuation and reaction to second-wave. The fourth wave that began in 2012 and continues till now, talks about women empowerment. The fourth wave seeks greater gender equality by focusing on gendered norms and marginalization of women in society. Traditionally, women are considered marginalized group especially women of colors and transgender women. Fourth-wave feminist’s advocate for greater representation of these groups in politics and business, and argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporated the perspectives of all people. Fourth-wave of feminism argues for equal pay for equal work and the equal opportunities sought for girls and women and to overcome gender norms, for example expressing emotions and feelings freely, expressing themselves physically as they wish, and to be engaged parents to their children) and seek justice against assault and harassment is prominent.