Women’s empowerment has five components:

• Women’s sense of self-worth;


• Women right to have and to determine choices;


• Their right to have access to opportunities and resources;


• Their right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home;


• Their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.

In this context, education, training, awareness raising, building self-confidence, expansion of choices, increased access to and control over resources, and actions to transform the structures and institutions that reinforce and perpetuate gender discrimination and inequality are important tools for empowering women and girls to claim their rights.