Women in the developing world don’t need cows and sewing machines. But that’s what aid groups keep offering.

In the days and months after the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009, aid groups wasted little time. Many women had been on the front lines, fighting among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Now, these groups decided, those women needed a healthy dose of “empowerment.” In development circles, the word “empowerment” has become […]

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