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Comment: The Concept of Women Empowerment.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements

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Naila Kabeer defines empowerment as "the expansion in people's ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them" (1999). The definition carries the concept's three claims: it is a process, it concerns strategic rather than trivial choices, and it presupposes prior disempowerment. Women's empowerment is therefore a…

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