ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the terms 'empowerment', 'change', and 'nonformal education and training' in relation to Third World women. Challenging societal barriers and gender relations is critical in women's empowerment and social-change processes. Nonformal education and training are identified as potential tools in promoting the empowerment of women in the Third World. 'Gender training' is a term that refers to training of development staff to increase their awareness of gender and development and to enable them to better integrate gender into development planning processes. The Women's Workers' Movement (WWM) is a loose coalition of women's workers' organizations in Asia that provides educational and training activities to bridge the issues of labor and gender. Training in home arts, crafts, food production, family health care, and the like reflect an assumption that women can enhance the ways in which they perform their reproductive duties.
