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Women Empowerment: ASEAN Case Studies
Madeline Berma (Assoc.Prof.Dr)Tun Fatimah Hashim Women’s Leadership Centre
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Presentation
• Introduction
• Women’s Empowerment
• ASEAN women making a difference
– Facilitating Factors
– Constraining Factors
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Introduction
• Education
• Work
• Research
• Community
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Introduction
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Women’s Empowerment
• According to the UN definition, women’s empowerment has five components:
• Women's sense of self-worth;
• Right to have and to determine choices;
• Right to have access to opportunities and resources;
• Right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home;
• Ability to influence the direction of social change to create more social and economic order, nationally and internationally.
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Nutrition
Maternalmortality
Infantmortality
Malaria andother diseases
Income growth
UniversalPrimary
education
Gender equality/women’s
empowerment
…an opportunity, and an essential condition for achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Reducing inequalities - Empowering
women...
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ASEAN Women making a difference…
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Women Making a Difference…case studies
• Sreyneath Poole – Blogging and Empowering Cambodian Women
• Rasammah Bhupalan – Malaysian Women in politics
• Yayasan Pendamping Wanita Usaha Kecil – Strengthening Indonesian women in small business
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Facilitating Factors For Women Empowerment
• Existence of women's organizations
• Cultural context
• Women working with men
• Availability of support systems
• Using existing structures
• Women leadership
• Networking
• Favourable media coverage
• Favourable policy climate.
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Constraining Factors For Women Empowerment
• Heavy work load of women.
• Isolation of women from each other.
• Illiteracy.
• Traditional views limit participation.
• No funds.
• Disagreements/conflicts among women's groups.
• Negative and sensational coverage of media
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Thank You Very Much
Madeline Berma (Dr.)Tun Fatimah Hashim Women’s Leadership CentreUniversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia43600, Bangi, MalaysiaEmail: [email protected]@gmail.com