ABSTRACT
The concluding thoughts in this chapter capture the multi-ethnic and culturally diverse voices of women that are marked as formal and informal educational leaders and community builders who propel and instigate collective transformation on the micro and macro systems and organizations, across various realms of space and time. In this chapter, women’s voices from Australia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and West Africa fall beyond the traditional boundaries of feminism in terms of demonstrating the binary of self-empowerment and empowerment of others within the trajectories of an ecological change that manifests social justice and transformation on the public level. Furthermore, this chapter proposes a women’s leadership empowerment model that is multidimensional in terms of endorsing self-empowerment, role modeling, mentoring, and ecological leadership. The chapter advocates deconstructing Eurocentric gender scholarship and orientalist feminism in order to dispatch male-centric sociopolitical structures and colonial as well as patriarchal oppressions. Therefore, it calls for articulating and demonstrating comprehensive and holistic equitable practices that overcome women’s suppression and misrepresentation in various institutional, organizational, and informal spheres despite variations of geopolitical and sociocultural boundaries.
