The Empowerment of Women and Its Relationship to the Number of Children

There is no doubt that the subject of women has become a cornerstone in the public life of all societies, with all their different customs, traditions and concepts. It has also become an important platform for research, studies and international conferences. Women, one half of a society, and the cause of the other half's existence, have huge potentials which will be wasted and unless exploited well. This leads to squandering economic growth which, in turn, weakens the country's economic development. The topic of empowering of women and its relationship to the number of children is about defining the empowerment of women in certain areas and its importance in being the basis for the formation of the family and society. Under this research there is one of the most important elements of society and its development, with women's empowerment indicators and some obstacles to empowerment and implications of research on reality comes the empowerment of women and the impact on the number of children in the family based on a number of variables that have been selected. This study found a statistically significant negative correlation (reverse) of the variables of the educational level of wife and age at first marriage to the number of children, while there was a negative impact of the work in the public sector variable with no statistical significance in the number of children. The study also found a statistically significant positive correlation (directly proportional) of the variables of current age for women and family planning usage to the number of children. It has become possible to make a detailed presentation of the results and recommendations reached by the researcher and finally display the resources for this research.

The Role Of Small Enterprises In Empowering Woman A field study on the costal aria A Research Submitted For Master Degree In Population And Growth

In the past, the traditional way of thinking and the fact that woman generally inherits her social roles from her mother, limited woman's work into a very traditional patterns what restricted her involvement and ambition in the society. However, progress in social and economic and educational system going on in the society, requires changing in woman's role and status, Currently, the process of woman empowerment becomes a pressing necessity which demand searching for suitable and effective ways for achieving good results. However, the empowerment process requires making real changing in educational, economic, social, sanitary and political situation over all the society. One of the suitable mean which can help to empower women in the community is raising micro enterprises due to its flexible nature. Hence, we should encourage women's work in this sector, and work to defeat the difficulties facing them in their seeks, this will provide real help for them to play a pioneer role in production process, what will reflect positively on woman and her family and the whole society, that empowered women are important pushing factor in the development process.