Empowerment of women and the truce of modern society
Though, Women’s movements needed in the beginning of their struggle to shout and go to the street to reach the axioms of human existence, women’s call for equality evolved into a question on which equality they are talking about and their appeal for justice turned into a restoration of the meaning of human rights and their call for liberation laid down new concepts of freedom.
Throughout history, there emerged many concepts related to the promotion of women's status and their role in society till we arrived at the more modern concept which is empowerment.
Though, the empowerment of women means acquiring capabilities and skills and areas to deal positively with the contemporary world and with effective tools and a new vision, leading to full citizenship for women in their communities, Lebanese University Professor Dr. Ilhem kalab al bisat goes so far as to describe empowerment as a new opinion from a historical point of view and a truce on the contemporary level and that it is a new kind of normalization exerted on both women and men to shape an image of the contemporary society.
In another connection, several conferences held over the past years placed emphasis on this concept, including the recommendations of the Beirut Declaration of the Arab Regional Forum on Population held in Beirut in 2004, which stressed the importance of empowering women politically, economically and socially and enabling them to reach decision-making positions as active players and taking necessary measures to protect them from all forms of discrimination and violence against them, creating appropriate economic opportunities to fight the phenomenon of women's poverty and guaranteeing the reproductive rights of both women and women as part of a parcel of human rights.
Thus, empowerment touches upon many areas including the scientific, political, economic, health, legal and social empowerment. Scientific empowerment has become reachable for the majority of people, yet illiteracy still persists at the level of access to knowledge techniques while economic empowerment goes in parallel in a society threatened by economic difficulties.
While politics is still in the hands of males in this country and in the Arab world as well, the pain point remains the personal status laws which encroach on the wall of the forbidden sectarian law.