Have you ever wondered what it is and why it is important? female empowerment? For many years, women have had to fight against structural gender barriers and despite their fight, they are still in a disadvantaged position compared to men in many aspects.
One of the tools through which we seek to reduce this gap between men and women is, without a doubt, female empowerment, which refers to providing a greater autonomy for women, their recognition and the visibility of their contributions to society.
Although it seems unthinkable in these times when, apparently, all freedoms and rights are guaranteed, Being born a girl means having to break various barriers such as gender inequality and discrimination, among others.
Learn, below, the main advantages of female empowerment and how to help make it possible.
Benefits of female empowerment
Although some think that female empowerment is only favorable for women, Building more equitable societies generates positive effects for everyone. Below, you will be able to learn some data that tells us about the advantages of promoting women’s empowerment.
- Access to primary education for girls would reduce the costs by 14% early marriages and access to secondary education, 64%.
- Access to primary education for girls would reduce the costs by 10% early pregnancies and access to secondary education, 59%.
- It is essential to achieve equality, development and peace.
- Contributes to eradicating poverty and favors the social justice.
- Promotes respect and equal opportunities of women versus men.
- condemns the physical or psychological violence and injustices exerted on women.
- You can contribute to a greater economic growth.
- Helps ensure the food safety.
- Contributes to environmental care.
As you can see, they are not few nor exclusively for women, the advantages of promoting female empowerment and to move towards more egalitarian societies.
How to start making female empowerment possible?
Some small daily actions can be our contribution to achieve equality. He knows and applies some of them:
Involve all family members in household chores. Over the years, the distribution of these tasks has not been fair. Involving men and women equally in these tasks brings us closer to equality.
Put aside gender stereotypes. Recognizing that men and women have equal capabilities and that neither should be limited to certain roles in society is an important step to breaking inequality.
Continue working to guarantee the fundamental rights of women. Although many achievements have been achieved over the years in terms of women’s rights, there are still many struggles to be won.
Guarantee equitable treatment in work environments. Gender does not have to determine a person’s competencies to perform at work or the conditions to carry out a specific activity. Men and women must receive the same remuneration and the same benefits.
Why is it important to promote female empowerment from an early age?
If from an early age children learn to live under conditions of equality, they will internalize it more easily and in adulthood they will act consistently with these principles and values. Find below some reasons to promote female empowerment from childhood.
- So that girls learn that they too can leave fear behind, take risks, face challenges and learn from their mistakes and successes.
- reveal that gender stereotypes make girls from an early age feel less intelligent than boys.
- At an early age, children do not have prejudices; promoting female empowerment will help them internalize principles of equality and respect.
- Today’s girls are the leaders of the future, which is why it is important to bet on their potential and seek to guarantee them a more equitable future.
- Equality between men and women will contribute to conflict resolution, economic growth, disease prevention and greater sustainability of the world.
In it # Movement We promote female empowerment to build more egalitarian societies and we promote education as a tool to build a better future and to protect ourselves from sexual abuse and other types of violence. and.