DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2018.v05i10.005

Pages: 941-948

Women empowerment is a common concept that has been widely studied in several studies. Also several perspectives are existed in previous study have led to the importance in studying empowerment, and this article elaborated some of the existing concepts of women empowerment. From such previous studies about women empowerment, this research is particulary based from Bhattacharya et al. (2012) development concept of women empowerment to be tested in the context of women in Medan City, Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to examine perceptions of women empowerment based on women's perception around in Medan city. This research is cross sectional study, which used quota sampling technique to determine the amount of sample. A total of 210 women of various ages from 21 sub-districts from all over Medan became respondents in the study. The findings of the study show that the importance dimension of women empowerment in Medan City is about the knowledge capability score, which is also strengthened by facts in the search of knowledge by reading books, newspapers or magazines is the highest score compared to health and autonomy capability findings.