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- The economic explosion in Asia was, in large part, an outgrowth of the economic empowerment of women.†
Chpt Intr. *empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) summed up the mounting research this way: "Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality.†
Chpt Intr.
- Empowering girls, some in the military argued, would disempower terrorists.†
Chpt Intr.empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- That is the process under way—not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.†
Chpt Intr.empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Now Natalie plans on a career empowering young people around the world: "All anyone should do is use their gifts in what way they can, and this is how I can use mine.†
Chpt 1empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- They argue instead for a legalize-and-regulate model based on empowerment of sex workers, and they cite a success: the Sonagachi Project.†
Chpt 2empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Education and empowerment training can show girls that femininity does not entail docility, and can nurture assertiveness so that girls and women stand up for themselves.†
Chpt 3
- "Empowerment" is a cliche in the aid community, but it is truly what is needed.†
Chpt 3
- "Empowering women begins with education," she said.†
Chpt 4empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Missionaries have been running indispensable health and education networks in some of the poorest countries for decades, and it would be enormously beneficial to bring their schools and clinics into a global movement to empower women and girls.†
Chpt 8empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Empower yourself!†
Chpt 9
- Another fundamental part of her work involves economic empowerment measures.†
Chpt 9empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- While empowering women is critical to overcoming poverty, it represents a field of aid work that is particularly challenging in that it involves tinkering with the culture, religion, and family relations of a society that we often don't fully understand.†
Chpt 10empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- A friend of ours was involved in a UN project in Nigeria that was meant to empower women, and his experience is a useful cautionary tale.†
Chpt 10empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race.As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.—KOFI ANNAN, THEN UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, 2006†
Chpt 11empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- A broad range of countries around the world—Rwanda, Botswana, Tunisia, Morocco, Sri Lanka—have likewise made rapid progress in empowering women.†
Chpt 12empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Educating and empowering girls is certainly the right thing to do, but, most important in the eyes of many families, it is profitable!†
Chpt 12
- Rwanda is consciously implementing policies that empower and promote women—and, perhaps partly as a result, it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.†
Chpt 12empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- Later, from 1982 to 1985, she found herself living in a village working on education and empowerment efforts with a small grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.†
Chpt 13empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.†
Chpt 13
- Tostan has demonstrated that empowerment is contagious, accomplished person by person and spreading village by village.†
Chpt 13
- Big efforts that failed—the campaign in the 1970s and 1980s against FGM and the missions by Westerners to Afghanistan with the lofty goal of empowering women—fell short because they were decreed by foreigners high up in the treetops.†
Chpt 13empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- So while the ostensible aim is to empower girls in countries like Pakistan, some of the major beneficiaries are the American girls.†
Chpt 13empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- For all these diverse problems, empowering women is part of the answer.†
Chpt 14empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- We would never argue that the empowerment of women is a silver bullet, but it is an approach that offers a range of rewards that go far beyond simple justice.†
Chpt 14empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- So the time is ripe for a new emancipation movement to empower women and girls around the world.†
Chpt 14empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- The tools to address these challenges include girls' education, family planning, micro-finance, and "empowerment" in every sense.†
Chpt 14empowerment = the giving of authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
- The economic advantages of empowering women are so vast as to persuade nations to move in that direction.†
Chpt 14empowering = giving authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
Definitions:
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(1)
(empower) give or delegate authority or power to
or:
give knowledge or confidence to someone that permits doing something - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)