The Importance Of Women's Empowerment

In human society, male empowerment happened to many years ago. It leads some problem like sexism happens to our life. Nowadays, female empowerment in our society is normal. “Women’s empowerment is a global issue, and discussion on women’s political right are at the forefront of many formal and informal campaigns worldwide.” (Sahay 201) It means that women can make decision and equal rights in law. “Women’s empowerment is to wipe out gender bias and implant positive attitudes from the minds of men, women and children.” (Jaimon 36) it is important to get equal opportunity in society with no gender bias. In order to take attention or to promote the important of women empowerment, people discover many ways to achieve goal like composing songs.

“I am Woman” and Ray Burton. The song brings out some specific ability to praise women like intelligent, impressive, and impregnable and own these abilitys from misery and agony. For example, “Oh yes I am wise”, ”but it 's wisdom born of pain”, “I am strong”, “I am invincible” (metrolyrics) these lyrics are delivering the meaning of intelligent, impressive and impregnable. “Empowerment consists of four dimensions”, “These are cognitive, psychological, political, economic” (Parpart, Rai and Staudt 1978) Archive female empowerment should let people to respect, understanding the true. The song described a woman have these abilities to be recognized as respectable is accord with female empowerment. “Empowerment is commonly understood as the condition of having power, and being able to exercise it and obtain the benefits thereof” (Narayan-Parker 219) That songs blow up women to being imposed and clever in order to possess the condition of

“Woman’s World”. The song was depicting a woman getting hurt but did not give up, being stronger to facing problem. She also encourages the entire women joint together to face problem. “But I’m stronger, strong enough to rise above” (metrolyrics) is an obvious sentence to advocate woman to be strong. “I love myself in the beat of the drum” (metrolyrics) was a way that told woman to love themselves and that is a condition to being independence. “All the women in the world, stand up come together now” (metrolyrics) in the last part of the song, the lyricist encourage woman together and unity to facing the problem. “Women’s empowerment is the process of challenging existing power relations of gaining a greater control over the sources of power” (Srilata 130) while apply that theory to the song, the lyricist encourage women to unity and being stronger to challenge the existing empowerment environment. “Power is well dispersed across various sections of people” (Usha 123) because of power is scattering, the lyricist recount woman to unity so that the power can enhance in order to archive the condition of female empowerment. To compare and contrast with these three songs, they are similarly depicting a powerful woman that had enough power to protect herself and it was a condition to female empowerment. Also, these three songs were only expressing one woman that means all these lyricists had consensus on being independence was significant condition to