translated from Spanish: How do you understand empowerment?

The empowerment of women is vital for them to be able to participate fully in all sectors, social, economic, political, establishing more stable and just societies; with full exercise of their human rights, improving the quality of life of women, promoting the incorporation of women’s talents, skills, experiences and energies in order to achieve gender equality in the workplace, in the market and in the community. According to the Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT is defined as the process by which women move from any situation of oppression, inequality, discrimination, exploitation or exclusion to a stage of conscience, self-determination and autonomy, which is manifested in the exercise of democratic power that emanates from the full enjoyment of their rights and freedoms.AS YOU UNDERSTAND EMPOWERMENT:When women recognize themselves as subjects of rights, they approach their empowerment, knowing, analyzing and reflecting on the social construction of identity and self-esteem, revealing and recognizing the existing social hierarchies, as well as the values that cause them and maintain discrimination in general and violence against women, with the exercise of its citizenship it allows to prevent and attend to these aspects, which for years have permeated our society. Empowerment can be shown as the process by which women in situations of violence increase their strength, their political, social or economic autonomy which leads them to promote positive changes in the situations in which they live. It usually involves the development in the beneficiary of a confidence in their own abilitiesIn this sense the empowerment of women is not linear, it is a term that is applied according to life, context, history, whether personal, family, national, regional or global. With these aspects, women can visualize their environment and vindicate themselves in their true role. Leadership and empowerment are closely related, women who recognize themselves empowered, have an active role in decision-making, which allows to give way to equality between women and men. Power is not outside, all people carry it inside; so the first thing you have to do to empower yourself is to understand that you don’t need to scream, bother, let alone assault, to demonstrate and achieve what you want. Read more: Fractured public health Empowerment is also generated from childhood education; with the transmission of values (for example, not to kill or not to steal), it is necessary to rebuild the social fabric, that is why it is important that women who identify as victims of violence transit to their empowerment, this will allow them the proper management of self-esteem, rescuing love for themselves, and the collapse of the fear of loneliness, it will help them to achieve their goal, to live a life free of violence, making use of their inner strength, which is only achieved with self-acceptance and self-respect, this power is obtained from the woman herself. “Behind the exercise of power is the use of the will.” By Alejandra Vellati.



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