3. Women
Empowerment
It is the process, and the
outcome of the process, by
which women challenge gender-
based discrimination against
women in all the institutions
and structures of society.
4. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE
•explore and trust own thoughts,
emotion, desires and experiences;
•recognize positive and negative
characteristics;
•set goals and work toward them;
•know about positive value assertion,
stubbornness and decisiveness;
•knows self through own creative work;
5. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
•know personal truth and trust her
intuition;
•credit self for her thoughts, feelings, and
actions;
•emphasize self-knowledge over other-
knowledge;
•discern real wants and needs from those
forced upon her by the problems,
dependencies and other sources of her
oppression.
6. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
SELF – DEFINING
•Create her own definition of herself rather
than accept others’ definition of her.
•Views herself as a complete human person.
•Struggles to overcome conventional
stereotypical picture of femininity
(submissive, quiet, unintelligent)
•Has the courage to try non-traditional
behaviors.
7. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
•Develops her own standards and
values, determining for herself what is
important for her to do.
•Acknowledges her personhood as
separate from the family or a man.
She defines herself as a complete,
whole human person, not a helpmate
to man, a mother, a housewife, or
server of others’ needs.
8. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
PERSONAL POWER
•Personally strong, not from dominating others,
but from their love, trust and faith in
themselves and other women. It involves being
active, assertive, and skillful.
•Do not require support from man to survive.
Are self-reliant, independent, and autonomous.
Have a sense of purpose, achievement and
dignity.
•Self-governing and seeks guidance from
themselves. Trusts own experiences and have a
sense of self-worth and positive self-image.
9. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
EQUALITY
• The right of women and men to live as
free and equal human beings, equality
should exist in all areas of life:
– women’s constitutional rights as citizens
– work
– access to wealth
– responsibilities within a marriage including
child rearing and the financial and physical
maintenance of the home
– align treatment of problems
10. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE
• Women must learn to understand
economics and how to make money.
This will enable us to be financially
self sufficient and therefore
economically independent of men.
11. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION
• Being able to grow and achieve without
restrictions in society. This includes
freedom of movement, freedom of choice,
freedom from fear of male violence and
freedom to express one’s ideas and
opinions without constraint, being brushed
aside or being cut down.
12. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
HAVING POLITICAL POWER IN
SOCIETY
• Involved in making decisions shaping
society, to exercise their own voice and to
have the power to influence the decisions
being made in society.
13. For every woman who was not taught
the intricacies of the automobile,
There is a man who was not taught
the satisfaction of cooking.
For every woman who takes a
step toward her own liberation,
There is a man who finds that
the way to freedom has been
made a little easier.
