Anita Gurumurthy's blog
“Access to productive resources, such as land, property, credit, technology and ICTs.”
Submitted by Anita Gurumurthy on Mon, 2008-09-08 05:19. ::
Women's empowerment and gender equality are no longer theoretical notions with hard-to-grasp meanings. They are terms bandied about by development agencies, not just implying different things to different people as was the analysis a few years back, but also more or less unburdened of their reference to 'power', and transformed into what Andrea Cornwall, in her essay - Pathways of women's empowerment - refers to as “today’s softer, more conciliatory, calls ..... that have none of the rough edges of older demands for justice and equality."
