Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Neneng Miskiyah 1,* Sari Lestari Zainal Ridho 1 Hadi Jauhari 1 Keti Purnamasari 1 1 Department of Business Administration, Polytechnic of Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia * Corresponding Author. Email : nenengmiskiyah@polsri.ac.id ABSTRACT Women’s empowerment is an important strategy in increasing the role and opportunities of women in improving their economy and is an effort to increase and actualize their potential so that they are more able to be independent and work, and are more respected. This study aims to analyze the probability of empowering women in the songket handicraft business according to dimensions of women’s empowerment. Testing and analyzing the dimensions of women’s empowerment consisting of welfare, access, awareness/critical awareness, participation, and control of women's empowerment. In this study we used the binary logistic regression. The results showed that the dimensions of participation and control have a positive and significant effect on women's empowerment. Keywords: women's empowerment, gender, dimensions. 1. INTRODUCTION The involvement of women in the labor market can illustrate the level of women's welfare and empowerment. The more women who work, it shows that the more women are able to actualize themselves and the smaller the inequality of work participation between women and men in the labor market. According to data from Sakernas February 2019 [1], the comparison of the Labor Force Participation Rate (TPAK) between women and men in 2019 shows quite a large difference, the TPAK for women is 55.50 percent, while the TPAK for men is equal to 83.18 percent. Although women's participation rates have increased in the labor market, women are more disadvantaged than men. While women are underrepresented in the workforce, many of them are unemployed or underemployed, who are part-time and informal sector workers. In the formal sector, women's participation is still lower, unemployment is higher, quality of work is worse, wages are lower, access to resources such as land and credit is still low and women face discriminatory treatment in the wage system . Gender gap compensation affects not only women, but families and children whose needs are influenced by income mothers. This in turn will affect poverty levels, making the percentage of “poor” women larger in society [2] . Women take more responsibility, have to care for their families and carry out social responsibility to society and they need to be compensated equally and fairly for doing so. Therefore, it needs attention because the increasing role of women in the labor market is expanding and so that this involvement does not lead to gender inequality. Women's empowerment is an interesting issue to discuss. The various efforts made by the government and society through its programs are directed so that the benefits of development can be felt in a balanced way, both men and women. However, this effort does not yet reflect gender equality, because there is still a lack of attention and intensity of programs directed at empowering women. The development of a family business is one of the steps that can be taken to increase the role of women in the family to jointly build and develop the family economy in achieving family welfare. Previous research with a similar topic [3] has been conducted which examines the multidimensional effect of production, resources, education, time use on women's empowerment. The results showed that the highest contribution to multidimensional economic empowerment came from the education sector followed by resources, time use, and the least contribution came from income. Another empirical result [4] shows that the content of education, the economy of women's participation, poverty, and the economic opportunities available to women increase their empowerment. Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, volume 1 Proceedings of the 4th Forum in Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST-T3-20) Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 129