ABSTRACT
This chapter is focused on the findings (and contexts) of the surveys, focus group discussions and the twin indices: capabilities and equalities. In the struggle for equality, a consequential finding is that just under two-thirds of all respondents said they participate in decisions about how their earnings will be used. Violence in the family is discussed, including the finding that healthy percentages of respondents refuse to accept it. On the correlation between self-worth and social action – a definitive conceptual underpinning in this book – almost one-third of social education graduates attended a meeting on gender inequality and/or environmental concerns in the past year. 35% of graduates are much more likely to go alone outside the village most of the time. The chapter continues with analysis of interview responses concerning the wider perception of the benefits of social education by household heads. More than two-thirds strongly agreed that education for young women should be allowed after marriage. The final section discusses the focus group findings involving 16 village representatives/leaders, including the perception that women’s social education transfers gender equality values at a societal level.
