Creating women's empowerment through the constructive mastery of life crises

Throughout their lifespan, humans experience life crises. Often these crises are connected to negative emotions, but they can also become chances for empowerment. The aim of this chapter is to explore critical life events and life crises as significant resources for women's empowerment. The research methodology applied is qualitative in nature, and the research paradigm is phenomenological. As a research method, online questionnaires were used to collect data from women across different cultural and societal backgrounds. Findings are presented in qualitative research reporting style, analysing the experience of life crisis events for women at micro, meso, and macro levels. Finally, conclusions are drawn and recommendations offered, focusing on responding to the overall research question of how to transform life crises and shame in order to empower women.