Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts (WEMC)

The Research Programme Consortium on 'Women's empowerment in Muslim contexts: gender, poverty and democratisation from the inside out' (WEMC) was formed to address this knowledge gap - that is, 'how to achieve women's empowerment', especially in the face of disempowering forces, old and new.

WEMC defines women's empowerment as an increase in their capacity to make autonomous decisions to challenge or transform power relations that impede gender equality. It contends that conventional development interventions ignore power structures standing between women and the state.

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