Modalities for economic empowerment of women

Abstract

Through continuous and sustained combination of several approaches over time we will no doubt be able to put together a number of preconditions for the economic empowerment of women. In view of the foregoing, the issue of women cannot be addressed without identifying the various roles played by them in society. These roles will be discussed later in this presentation. But why this issue of economic empowerment of women? Is it that women have no economic power or have little and so need more for their full development and participation? Do their amazing acumen for business and trading and their struggling spirit, evident in their day-to-day activities, and their demonstrated ability to create enterprises, suggest a lack of economic power? Are the many women here in this hall most of whom are in business or employed deprived of power. It is difficult to say!