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• Title: Church Women's Groups and the Empowerment of Women in Solomon Islands.
• Author : Oceania
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 230 KB

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INTRODUCTION It would be easy for an outsider searching for examples of innovative feminist development initiatives to dismiss the significance of church women's groups, particularly if the groups' activities focus on spiritual growth, sewing, and social work. This is exactly the focus adopted by many church women's organizations in Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Melanesia and yet they have considerable cultural and practical potential for empowering women. In the highly dispersed rural villages of the Solomons, such groupings offer opportunities for networking, solidarity building, and non-formal education (Scheyvens 1993, 1995b). (1) In addition, several more dynamic church women's organizations have broadened their approach in recent years in an attempt to address the structural disadvantage of Solomon Islands women. This paper provides examples of innovative development strategies initiated by three such organizations during the early 1990s? I argue that with a slight change of tack other church women's groups could play an equally effective role in actively transforming women's lives.

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