GUIDELINES ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
Prepared by the United Nations Task Force
Women's empowerment has five components:
women's sense of self-worth; their right to have and
to determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities
and resources; their right to have the power to control their own
lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to
influence the direction of social change to create a more just
social and economic order, nationally and internationally.