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Januka Thapa from Silame, Sindhuli, can assure you that clothes, the size of her calves, her period or even politics, for that matter, don’t rank high in her priority list. The most pressing issue for her at the moment is to lead her team to finish their order of 50 fiber bags and to make sure that by the end of the month, she will be able to surprise her son with the toy he has been eyeing at the local market.

“I think this is what empowerment feels like. To know that, if it came down to sustaining your own and your children’s livelihood by yourself, you can do it. This is a brand new feeling for me. I can’t remember the number of times I had to turn down my kid’s various requests, but now I can afford to give them that joy every month on my own,” shares Thapa.

As social scientist and feminist activist, Kamala Bashin, once put it, everybody has their own definition of feminism. The Oxford Dictionary may cite it as, “the advocacy for woman on grounds of political, social and economic equality to men.” However, the route one believes that needs to be taken to achieve this right, can and in many cases, do vary, making the feminist cry different from culture to culture and country to country.

Now where ours is concerned, in many ways it is only just finding its voice, sometimes quite literally. “Self respect is a tremendous thing. We see it in our member workers time and again,” says Shristi Joshi Malla, chairperson of SABAH Nepal, the social-business organization which works towards strengthening the livelihoods of poor and marginalized women home based workers



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