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 …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …