Empowerment of women as a mechanism to achieve population policy objectives in Algeria A field on a sample of married women in the city of Laghouat

Abstract

this study aimed to attempt to identify the reality of women's empowerment and its role in achieving the objectives of population policy, consisted in the control of the number of births. Therefore, we will try to shed light on this important demographic phenomenon (fertility), because it is the main determinant of population growth, and to give it importance through conducting a field study on a sample of married women in the city of Laghouat, where the study was conducted on a sample of (132 women), as they were selected in an intentional manner. The study data were collected based on the quantitative and qualitative approach and the tool of the questionnaire. The study concluded that the indirect population policy represented in the policy of empowering women by paying attention to their education as well as their involvement in the labor market has a direct and clear role in influencing the fertility levels of Algerian women.