Empowerment of Women: Key Role of Promoting Significant Achievement in Rural Economic Development

AUTHOR(S)

AMER P. MACALAWI, JD, MPA

ABSTRACT

— The study looks forward with women empowerment. This is a significant role in achieving goals for development. Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas. Women empowerment is making people having supremacy and control over their own lives. This is promoting sense of self-worth, determining ability to their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others. EMPOWERMENT uses as a mnemonic for signifying innovation, intervention and strategy. Qualitative research design with multi-case study approach is used. Purposive sampling technique is used in selecting participants. The interview, observation, and focus group discussion is used in gathering data. The data analysis is using the framework as basis for creating proposition, organizing phenomenon, developing themes, examining synthesis. The findings present three subtopics with ten themes comprises with empowerment of women with four themes consists of nature of empowerment, types of empowerments, advantage of empowerment, process of women empowerment; significant achievement promotion with four themes comprises with roles of women, significant achievement, women benefit, nature of promotion; empowerment in rural economic development with two themes includes women empowerment achievement and women promotion in rural development. The study concludes that upgrading of accomplishment in rural economic development is the key role of women empowerment. The study recommends a) strengthening women group; b) enhancement of women leaders; c) tapping of potential resources; work with for policy framework; d) link with other support group for other services to women. Keywords — Empowerment, women, achievement, development