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Gender equality and women’s empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Empowering Women aims to inspire women with the courage to break free from the chains of limiting belief patterns and societal or religious conditioning that have traditionally kept women suppressed and unable to see their true beauty and power. We need to augment our efforts for empowering women and enhance their progress. It is our moral, social and constitutional responsibility to ensure their progress by providing them with equal rights and opportunities. These ideals were rooted in the Constitution, which provides the fundamental framework for development of women and guarantees equality for them. Around the world, significant progress has been made towards gender equality and empowerment of women. Despite this increase in economic activity, inequalities remain with regard to the entry to work, conditions at work and in exit from the labour market. With lack of adequate resources, approximately 75 percent of women do not have access to credit and land ownership and to start their own business is also difficult for women. They often face barriers in employment, which forces them to remain in low-paid sectors. Women’s active participation in economic policy in the public sector and in reaching upper-management and decision-making positions in the private sector is uneven worldwide, and often not a priority. Women’s equal rights and influence in the key decisions that shape their lives and those of children must be enhanced in three distinct areas: the household, the workplace and the political sphere. Let women be equal partners and this aspect can be achieved through education and bringing about a change in the mind-set of the people. So empowering women on one hand involves making them self-dependent and financially independent to the extent where they can demand and extract their rights; and on the other hand it involves motivating men to support the women in their lives to get empowered. Hence involving men in women’s empowerment is a crucial component of the empowerment process.