Abstract
The handicraft industries were part of the manual work carried out by women, relying on a great deal of taste and accuracy, so we see that many women in most countries with customs, traditions, and cultures engage in handicrafts in their homes, which do not bear the cost of renting the workplace, and in at the same time, their families support them. In the Kurdistan Region, after going through the economic and political conditions, women turned to the handicraft industry, as the beginning was to meet their needs only, but with the advent of social networking sites, it has become their source of livelihood at present. The research aims to shed light on the economic empowerment of women, indicate the extent to which economic empowerment of women has been achieved in the activities of craft industries in the city of Erbil, and measure the impact of the demographic and economic characteristics of women in promoting craft industries, through the questionnaire and by (227) sound questionnaires out of a total of (250) Form.
