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Female Empowerment



Female empowerment is the process of making social power available to women at the same capacity of men in a traditionally patriarchal system. It is the active valuing of women’s inherent strength, capabilities, beauty, viewpoints, and wisdom in response to standards and expectations that have diminished them in relation to those of men in both public and private spheres. Female empowerment has been proven to aid positive economic, social, and political transformation in a male-dominated world.

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Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

What if women had been the storytellers? Cassandra Speaks is a synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. All people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

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FindCenterWhen the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

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An Interview with Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo

“The head nun just started crying. Of course I like to make offerings and to honor. But in 20 years of doing this … it’s all been males. This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to honor a female.” - Head nun, Drupka nunnery about Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Rabbi Sharon Brous - Women's March on Washington 1/21/17 (C-Span Footage)

Rabbi Brous takes the stage at the Women's March on Washington before a crowd of hundreds of thousands as part of a line-up of activists, faith & community leaders and entertainers. Grateful to Henry J. Bernstein for his video editing savvy.

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in...

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FindCenterWhere will Christian feminists go for spiritual nourishment if the church itself fails to reflect the feminism of Jesus? If tradition becomes a reason for churches, for synagogues, for mosques to refuse to change in the light of new insights and understandings, on what grounds can we expect change...

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Why Women Need Fierce Self-Compassion

Compassion isn’t always soft and gentle; sometimes it means being forceful and fierce.

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Nina Simons: Reclaiming Relationship & Tradition | Bioneers 2016

Reclaiming Relationship & Tradition: Towards a Future that Works for All.

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Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women over Fifty

What’s next for the getting-older generation of women who have been redefining themselves each decade? Women turn 50 and cross into uncharted territory.

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FindCenterIn indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed as a time of positive power, rather than as evidence of sin and negative power, or as a feminine inconvenience.

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