Women Leaders Training

This morning the MUBS Leadership Centre started a women's leaders training programme that has attracted participants from different organizations. One of the things that MUBS has done is to promote empowering of women. Knowing that being the majority of people, if they are not empowered there is a slow and uneven development especially of the poor people in the world. We have been socialized to believe certain things about ourselves both as men and women. For this reason men tend to disadvantage women which lead to lesser development. Social exclusion of women starts right from our parent's home as they give different roles to different children; it goes to schools, workplaces and world at large. All this is disadvantaging and subordinating women to men. There is need for empowerment of women but we need to be careful on what we mean by empowerment. For instance, there are cultural aspects of respects of parents and all people which are part of African culture. It would be unfortunate if in the name of social inclusion we tampered with such cultures. We should remember 20% of our population in Uganda is in the rural areas with the traditional values that have subordinated women to men. How you transform these, is important. Women empowerment is done through legislation, affirmative action, feminism and sensitization but most important is building family values that encourage women inclusion in all spheres of life subject to biological differences that they face.