WINStore, WINKitchen, and other women’s empowerment programs can help resolve issues that hinder women’s comprehensive empowerment, starting from building economic resiliency to improving family and community quality, she said.
WINStore and WINKitchen are platforms initiated by Womenpreneurs Indonesia Networks (WIN) in Manado, North Sulawesi, that seek to facilitate and improve the competency of women entrepreneurs.
Economically empowered women can participate in the effort to bolster their families' prosperity. They can also provide proper nutrition and education to their children.
Prosperity can also help minimize potential violence, child exploitation, and even child marriages, which often serve as a way to escape the burden of poverty.
In addition, the economic empowerment of women is also closely related to stunting reduction and prevention.
Women have extraordinary potential and role within the economic sector, especially in the management and ownership of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, the minister highlighted.
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MSMEs also play an important and strategic role in national economical development.
However, while women have a huge potential in the economic sector, they still experience a gap in terms of access, participation, and control. They are also restricted in terms of receiving the benefits of development.
To this end, economic empowerment would not only help women to earn an income, but also free themselves from violence and discrimination that restrain them.
Earlier, in a press statement issued on Friday, the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry’s gender equality deputy, Lenny N. Rosalin, said that the 2022 Indonesian G20 Presidency can serve as a momentum to expedite women’s empowerment.
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