International Day of Families: The role of women in promoting peaceful families

At the turn of the millennium, the economic empowerment of women was on the global agenda because it was believed that empowering women was
the first step in ensuring gender equality in the home, and in society. There are experiences, which reveal that the labour burden on women is actually increasing since empowerment activities come along with more activities attached to her and in most cases done single handedly but
expected to benefit the entire family. This is accelerated by the prevailing norms that surround ownership and decision making at family level yet interventions are not addressing these a fair equity. However, recently, the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) through the department of Family and Culture is advocating for change in focus. Instead of focusing on improving the woman’, youth, old persons, children
separately as individuals within a family, the department is focusing on uplifting the entire family, which will, in the process, empower women.

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