Running head: WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Women Empowerment Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation 1 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 2 Women Empowerment "Empowering women is empowering the society” or so goes a popular saying. With this in mind, different scholars have embarked on intellectual journeys with the aim of verifying the saying and it is without a doubt that they women have not disappointed. Borrowing from Moser (1989), Sanyal (2009) defines women’s empowerment as increase in women’s self-reliance, their right to determine choices, and their ability to influence the direction of change by gaining control over material and nonmaterial resources. In her research, Sanyal focuses on India a country which is mostly a male dominated. Despite being a male dominated country, India is wallowing in poverty because the men are riding solo while women are being forced to stay at home doing household chores. Even where women try to break out of the masculine snares of the society, their husbands end up sitting down doing nothing. What they Indian society fails to understand is that when men work and women do nothing, the country is only utilizing half of its manpower which has so far caused the country to lag behind economically. Unfortunately, women have also been “commodified” as Hoang (2014) noted. In the Asian countries particularly Vietnam, women are used as bargain chips in business. A majority of westerners only conduct their business in pubs and bars where the local women a ...
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