Analyzing women's empowerment from the perspective of Alzahra University students

A country needs the participation of all members of society, including women to achieve sustainable development. Women make up half of the population, which is especially important to pay attention to their needs, issues, problems, and prepare programs for their training and empowerment. In other words, empowering women is one of the important components of that endeavor. From this point of view, this research aims to analyze women's empowerment from the point of view of students of Alzahra University, a women higher academic institution in Tehran. The research is qualitative based on a semi-structured interview with 50 students in the academic year of 2022-2023. Based on the findings, the concept was categorized into six dimensions: psychological (with the components of freedom of expression, right to choose, decision making, planning, purposefulness, management of emotions, personal life skills, attention to existential value, self-belief, trust to ego, sense of satisfaction, responsibility, solving personal problems, ethics, independence, strong spirit, strong character and courage), social (with the components of communication, respect, social awareness, media literacy and social presence), family (with the components of interaction, having the power and skill of family life), political (macro-level decision-making and political literacy), the economic dimension (with job and income components) and knowledge (with the component of attention to the value of science). This research helped understand the concept of women's empowerment and can play a key role in the policy making.