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Women, Development and Empowerment: A Pacific Feminist Perspective

Empowerment Means Having an Alternative Vision of Society

Empowerment Means Having an Alternative Vision of Society

This is why having a vision of the society we want, having a Pacific feminist perspective, is so important for the empowerment of women. We need both:

1.

knowledge of society as it is, our social realities and relationships of power and powerlessness, to be able to

2.

decide our strategies and demands for change that will gain more power for women.

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Having a feminist perspective and strategies for Pacific women would help us to:

(a)

Broaden women's activities and add to their impact.

(b)

Gain greater power at all levels to control, influence, decide and change society from a woman's viewpoint.