On 1 January 2018, the European Union, UN Women and ILO kicked off the three-year programme WE EMP♀WER through responsible business in G7 countries. It aims to support sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth by focusing on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in the changing world of...

A rapidly evolving, technology-driven world will require job seekers to be well educated and be prepared for a life-long journey of learning and relearning. This is a challenge for women and girls who are already lagging in terms of attending and completing primary and secondary school. Of the...

On Thursday 16 March 2017, during the 61st edition of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka spoke to experts in sustainable solution, women empowerment, and information technology about the changing world of work with the need for 21st...

In spring 2016, after a rigorous and competitive application, three members of EmpowerWomen.org community were selected to receive a scholarship for the “ Online Moderated Care Economy Course ” delivered by the UN Women Training Center. Sabin Muzaffar was one of those selected and here are her...

Empower Women has been brought to life in 2013 and over the years has evolved into a global movement for women’s economic empowerment. We are currently conducting an evaluation that will help us to gather important information on results achieved and to learn how to improve the platform in the...

Empower Women is pleased to announce the launch of the HerStory initiative to close the gender knowledge gap. As Wikipedia compiles what represents close to the sum of all human knowledge, women should be recognized as part of that sum. Empower Women by UN Women , Wikimedia Foundation ,  the UN...

“ Women have been kept from contributing to History-making, that is, the ordering and interpretation of the past of humankind. Since this process of meaning-giving is essential to the creation and perpetuation of civilization, we can see that at once women’s marginality in this endeavor places us...

Photo: Empower Women Refugees in Egypt, just like anywhere else, face a number of challenges in obtaining residency and the right to work and education. Women tend to bear these burdens the most. With several million refugees in Egypt—the majority coming from Sudan and Syria—integration into...