Women's Empowerment: A study of the origins of the concept, its international mechanisms, and the national structures concerned with its implementation

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Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Alexandria University

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This study aims at introducing the concept of empowerment in general and empowering women politically and economically in particular by standing on the beginning of the concept’s emergence by reviewing the stages of development of concepts and trends of development and improving the status of women within different societies, passing through international institutions and the agreements, covenants and conferences that have been issued, as relevant international mechanisms. In the concept of empowering women, whether politically or in several fields, and up to the role of national governments that have committed to implementing the empowerment of women at the level of national structures and institutions on the executive and legislative sides to work on removing obstacles to empowering women, adapting what has been abided by, and ratifying what the international community has proposed to empower women, And this is through the establishment of national structures such as ministries and councils concerned with empowering women in the executive side and activating gender-responsive legislation as a parliamentary tool for empowering women at the political, economic, social and legal levels.

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