Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
“My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.”
“I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”