Women Have the Power...The Golden Honey Pot

In this book, we demonstrate the opportunities and achievements in which gender equality and women’s empowerment has been dealt with in development policy and practice has often excluded sexuality and feminity with individuality. Sexuality can provide new ways of looking at development problems. If for example, you look at women’s empowerment through a sexuality lens, you see a more complete and realistic picture of a woman: not a victim, nor an end-product ‘empowered’ woman, but a woman with a complex and changing life. You see a woman, whose well-being depends, among other things, on making choices about her own body, about pleasure and about her own sexuality. You also see a woman who lives within or perhaps challenges the confines of social pressure and expectations about her behavior. A woman’s sexuality and identity can affect many aspects of her life including her work and her means to earn a living, her family relations, her ability to move around in public, her opportunities to participate in formal and informal politics, and her access to education. Looking through sexuality adds something very valuable to our efforts to promote women’s empowerment