Women’s empowerment is the process by which women become aware of gender-based unequal power relationships and acquire a greater voice in which to speak out against the inequality found in the home, workplace, and community. It involves women taking control over their lives: setting their own agendas, gaining skills, solving problems, and developing self-reliance. Women’s empowerment perspective, within the ILO context, is to promote the equal position of women in the world of work, and to further that aim at one or more levels by: (a) Promoting capacity building of women to enable them to participate equally in all societal activities and decision-making at all levels; (b) Promoting equal access to and control over resources and the benefits of productive, reproductive, and community activities by affirmative action for women; (c) Working to achieve equality and safe and respectful working conditions; (d) Promoting and strengthening the capacity of women’s/ development organizations to act in favour of women’s empowerment and gender equality; (e) Promoting changes in the socio-economic conditions in society that often subordinate women to men such as laws, educational systems, political participation, violence against women and women’s human rights; (f) Making men aware of the significance of gender equality.