ABSTRACT
Margaret Hall developed two hypothetical profiles, two ideal-types of women: the subjugated and the empowered women. Empowerment is a very fashionable word these days: people's empowerment, women's empowerment are much used 'buzz-words'. The idea is, that development programmes should aim at increasing power and control of target- or beneficiary-groups over their own lives, "so that they are in a position to become their own development agents in the future." Women are no better human beings than men, but women have different needs, and different ways of communicating with others. Women's more holistic approach to life, and women's caring pragmatism, which can be taught to men, too, may be what is needed to cure this ailing world from many of its maladies. The word power derives from the Latin word 'posse' which means to be able.
