Discussion Question for Ch. 3

• “Education” and “Empowerment” are mentioned as the key to improving women’s social status. How are these related, and how can they resolve the situation?

First, empowerment can be defined as an authority or power given to someone to do something. This way, education can be regarded as a type of empowerment because education can provide various perspectives, knowledge, thinking skills, moral, so on and so forth, all of which are necessary for women to stand up for themselves. Education is of course essential for men and other genders as well, since they are more likely to get the ideas of integrity and moral. Although it spends an unimaginable time and energy to change the whole culture of community through education, this is the most effective way in a long term.