Political Empowerment of Women for Sustainable Development in Ethiopia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the different factors affecting women's political empowerment and to find out the contribution of women empowerment through politically to bring sustainable development in Ethiopia.  In order to gather relevant data Secondary data were used as a main source of data. The secondary data includes; statistical report, magazines, internal publications, journals and books.  The results of the study shows that there is a significant relationship between women’s political empowerment and socio-economic variables, social class positions, mass media, political participation experience and political efficacy. All these have a greater impact on women’s political empowerment in attaining sustainable development. The study recommended that  creating a well-established and structured organizations aimed at facilitating women's empowerment in politics is possible to strengthen the work of government to make it more effective by abolishing the  dominance of few powerful rich political elites and by  attempting inclusion of women in politics for sustainable development.

Keywords: Women Empowerment, Women’s Political Empowerment, Sustainable Development

DOI: 10.7176/JCSD/46-01

Publication date:March 31^st 2019