There's a lot out there if one were to search on the topic, but basically, by allowing women to engage in entrepreneurial endeavors by giving the rights to conduct that work, and, more importantly, not forcing them to be baby-making machines unlocks the potential of half the population.

In societies where they are effectively slaves (and breeders), they are not part of the economy and therefore cannot add to it.

And then there's just the humanitarian part of it too...

  https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/3-essential-issues-to-empower-women-and-end-poverty/
  https://caribbean.unfpa.org/en/news/empower-rural-women-%E2%80%93-end-hunger-and-poverty-1
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8293807/