Abstract:

Women’s empowerment is an important issue to be addressed. Women’s empowerment marks the overall development of a nation. Meanwhile, social media is one of the powerful instruments that assist women’s empowerment nowadays. This article aims to discuss the definition of women’s empowerment as well as the definition of social media. Most importantly, this article aims to give an overview of how social media helps women’s empowerment in dealing with issue of violence, education and entrepreneurship with Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia as examples. It finally conclude that women nowadays are exposed to various platform of social media which help them in their daily lives and assist them in empowering themselves.