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Women Empowerment - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Cash income increases women's bargaining power, standing, and sense of worth, but it may also add to women's family and community welfare roles which are significant in countries where government funded social welfare measures are non-existent.
      - Not all Polynesian women are equal, your social status is based of your family's rank in society. Working in the kitchen you are at a lower rank in society, whereas if you were a pastor or village chief you have a higher ranking in society.
        
        Gender has a relation role, which means it is difficult to find out which group of people is oppressed the worst in their society.
        
        Some women are highly oppressed, because their husband may be a lower ranking citizen, but other women who are wives to men who have higher ranking positions in the community typically are less oppressed.
- - - - "Which women are we talking about when we talk about empowering women?" This bring up the topic of women of color who are typically powerless in a white supremacist society, poor, and potentially could be pregnant. The iconic image of the "empowered women" is a smiling Hispanic or African American woman of a self-help group for real woman with low incomes, rather than a wealthy white woman, because white women are not marginalized in our society.
    - - The Pathways programme, each regional hub in the "developing contries," has set their own agenda of women's development. Using their interpretations of the term to create a diverse and plural research agenda.
      - The women's empowerment focuses heavily on the individual female entrepreneur, but fails to address broader structural issues. The neglect to the care economy in the United States is strongly reflected in the World Bank's approach to gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
      - The Women's Developemnet fails to address the issues with women's bodies, desires, and pleasures. We need to recognize women's sexuality and sexual agency. We need to go beyond the heteronormative view point of the hard working wife in the kitchen. Also, that not all men benefit from the patriarchal dividend and that we need to go beyond the normative restrictions of identity politics and build a alliances.
      - Putting power back into empowerment requires re-articulation of these elements. We need to question the associations of empowerment with something good, progresssive, and beneficial.. Asking what kind of power, takes us beyond the limiting essentialism about women's vulnerability and male power that offers us a little scope for making sense of intersecting sexes of oppression nor potentials for an alliance.
        
        We need to restore the complexity and the explanatory concepts of power, agency, class, and gender. We need to rearticulate the meaning of empowerment that can't be reduced to obedient women cheerfully shouldering ever more of development's burdens. to do this we need to go beyond the idea of that empowerment of women can be in any way sufficient to change the inequitable world we live in and move the topic to a more broader concern with justice.