The area of women’s empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors … understandings of women’s empowerment in the literature and to discuss empirical evidence from NGO projects in the field. A … findings highlighted four common understandings of women’s empowerment including granting women a voice, challenging existing …

for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …