What is Woman Empowerment ?

Am i an empowered woman ? Who is an empowered man by the way? What it actually means to be empowered?

Empowerment is not a buzz word anymore. If you have in  your life power to make choices in important instances of your life then you are an empowered person. If as a woman you are having enough space, confidence and guts to make your own decisions by yourself in a society where men dominate in private and public spaces then being a woman you are empowered as a man is.

Men usually get this space easily out of societal settings and norms and women have to struggle for it, therefore women empowerment is often quoted terminology when it comes to human rights and ones choices in life.

If i earn and the decision of how, where and when to spend my earned money has no role of me involved then i would not call it "empowerment". Empowerment comes with "decision making". 

However, how one decides is entirely not part of empowerment-its just a certain way one adopts to decide about anything based on experiences and learning.

Are you empowered ? if yes, that's the best thing you have in life and if not-why not to be one ? and if you fall in the ''if not'' group of women then you would be highly disliking my blog and at the same time thinking on how to be empowered in the sense that i have explained above.

                                                                                                     

In order to be decision makers of our life choices, if one is not empowered enough but want to be then start giving importance to your thoughts regrading "self-approval". Do you approve your self being the way you are? Do you feel extremely unhappy about any thing in your life? how to fix that?

Start making choices based on your decisions on smaller aspects of life like what to wear on daily basis not for the approval of others but for the satisfaction of your ownself . For some women even that is a hard decision to make (even if they want to choose dresses that are culturally appropriate) which does not include their own choices but approval of others around.

Lets throw a stone in stagnant water on whatever small level we can in our lives and try to feel the beauty of making ones own choices!

 Photo credits: sidra saeed