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Empowerment of women has been a major objective and debate in the recent past among the academia and civil societies across the world. Women empowerment is the process of changing the system of society or any institution that positions women as subordinate to men. Therefore in its simplest term women empowerment is a practice through which women acquire the ability or power to exercise their rights in a society concerning their own lives and realizing their sense of self-worth, their right to have and determine choices, access to opportunities and resources, and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create more just social and economic order by involving themselves in decision-making process, at local, national, as well as international levels. It involves undoing of all the social constructions that have kept women confined to the domestic realm. Hence, women’s empowerment is vital in the development of any society or a nation. The 2030 Agenda for...
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Lama, W., Paul, S. (2020). Women Empowerment in the Indian Armed Forces. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_145-1
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