The Women's Empowerment Division organized a scientific symposium in cooperation with the Model Woman Organization in the governorate, entitled "The legal framework for the empowerment of Iraqi women from the economic point of view. Lukaa Khalid Muhammad Ali, a lecturer at the College of Law and session rapporteur, Eng. Kawthar Mwafaq Jaber, a lecturer at the College of Health and Medical Technologies at our university. The symposium dealt with issues of women's empowerment as one of the themes on which governments focus and aim to enhance the role of women in various economic, social and political fields. Its contribution to the sustainable development process; With the beginning of the international interest in the role of women in development, there was a special interest in the role of women in economic development, where the empowerment of women comes through strengthening their economic role and enabling them to enter the labor market and create a legislative and economic framework for their work, and thus equality in job opportunities, wages and training.
The economic empowerment of women is an effective means for advancing the economic and social level of the family and society. The state is striving to reduce the phenomenon of feminization of poverty, raise the competitiveness of women in the labor market and support poor women in the informal sector and rural women, especially women with breadwinners. The seminar included the following topics:
The first item: What is the economic empowerment of women?
The second item: the challenges of women's economic empowerment
The third item: the legal aspects of women's economic empowerment.
In conclusion, all inquiries and questions that revolved in the minds of the participants in the symposium were answered.
