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According to IGI Global, "It will be meaningless, if women that constitute half of the population of the globe do not have access to education, healthcare, employment and political decision making bodies. A nation benefits fully when both men and women contribute rigorously in social cohesion, economic growth, peace and prosperity." This shows that women's empowerment is necessary to the development of a nation and requires cooperation and equal rights for all parties.

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women's economic empowerment in the developing countries: reengineering patriarchy?: business & management

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Women's Economic Empowerment in the Developing Countries: Reengineering Patriarchy?: Business & Management Book Chapter | IGI Global

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Women's Economic Empowerment in the Developing Countries: Reengineering Patriarchy?: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9806-2.ch013: It is an established fact that women's empowerment is primary to the socio-economic and political development of a nation. It will be meaningless, if women

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According to the University of Minnesota Women's Center, "Women across the world represent about 40% of the world’s workforce. This is a huge figure, and exemplifies the need for allowing this 40% to gain proper education to increase human capital potential, besides the obvious rights to education that any young girl or boy should possess." When 40% of a countries work force isn't properly educated and not given equal rights to the rest of the population, it will stay as a developing country because those uneducated and disenfranchised workers do not have opportunities to move up in the work force.

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According to The Borgen Project, "The empowerment of women and the improvement of their political, social, economic and health statuses is a highly important endeavor. In fact, it’s essential for sustainable development." This shows that in developing countries they have to include women and give them equality to become a developed nation.

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A simple truth has been denied across the globe for centuries - the importance of equality and most specifically, women's empowerment. Developing nations need women's empowerment because half measures of equality can't guarantee complete progress.

Global Gender Inequality

Women make up half of the entire world population yet they also, sadly, represent 70 percent of the world's poor. The world we live in, a world where women living in poverty face inequalities and injustices from birth until they die, has been built on unequal principals - a slow killing sequence of discrimination that any woman might suffer during her lifetime.

Women earn only 10 percent of the world's income and half of what men regularly earn. This inequality is one of the main reasons women in developing nations live in poverty. In developing countries, women die each year as a result of gender-based violence. Gender discrimination creates blockades for women both physically and mentally, as they begin to believe they are worth less and thus cease believing they have a purpose in society other than to do what is told to them.

Women's Empowerment in Developing Nations

Developing nations need women's empowerment, especially for girls living in poverty, as it's those closest to them who often work against their interests and create dysfunctional and harmful environments.

Can the world change? Yes, plain and simple. But only once women are no longer discriminated against for being the pillars of strength and growth that they are. The World Bank believes "putting resources into poor women's hands while promoting gender equality in the household and in society results in large development payoffs." It's fundamental to nurture young girls and women in self-confidence; empower them - especially those living in poverty; to make informed choices about their lives; and to understand their importance in their communities.

The empowerment of women and the improvement of their political, social, economic and health statuses is a highly important endeavor. In fact, it's essential for sustainable development. In reproductive standards, both men and women are responsible for half of the creation of life, so it stands to reason that equality among all is essential to the continued growth and cultivation of life as a whole.

In most of the world, women receive less formal education than men, and women's knowledge and abilities often go unrecognized. Relations that impede women's attainment of healthy, fulfilled lives operate in multiple levels of society, from personal to highly public. True change requires policy and program actions that improve women's access to secure livelihoods. Developing nations need women's empowerment in order to overcome any "legal" impediments to their public life and raise social awareness through effective education and mass communication programs.

Bringing Equality

Here are key ways that countries, developed or undeveloped, help bring women's empowerment:

Establishing mechanisms for women's equal participation and equitable representation at all levels of the political process, society and community public life; enabling women to articulate their concerns and needs

Promoting the fulfillment of women's potential through education, skill development and employment; giving paramount importance to the elimination of poverty, illiteracy and ill health among women

Eliminating all practices that discriminate against women; assisting women to establish and realize their rights, including those that relate to reproductive and sexual health

Adopting appropriate measures to improve women's ability to earn income beyond traditional occupations, achieve economic self-reliance, and ensure women's equal access to the labor market and social security systems

Eliminating violence against women

Eliminating discriminatory practices by employers against women, such as those based on proof of contraceptive use or pregnancy status

Making it possible, through laws, regulations and other appropriate measures, for women to combine the roles of child-bearing, breastfeeding and child-rearing with participation in the workforce.

Partnerships for Change

Currently, the World Bank Group (WBG) aims to take action working alongside governments, companies and other partners to close remaining gaps in education and maternal health. Efforts are being put in place to enhance women's economic opportunities by: helping to create better jobs, ensure ownership and control of assets like land and housing, gain access to finance, technology and insurance services, and increase all capacity and opportunity to act independently at home, in the community and in the various levels of governments.

The world needs women, and in more ways than numerous societies have allowed. Developing nations have always needed women's empowerment for true growth and prosperity, but now it's needed more than ever.

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Developing Nations Need Women's Empowerment

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A simple truth has been denied across the globe for centuries - the importance of equality and most specifically, women's empowerment. Developing nations need women's empowerment because half measures of equality can't guarantee complete progress. Global Gender Inequality Women make up half of the entire world population yet they also, sadly, represent 70 percent of the world's poor.