ABSTRACT
The Prologue is a summation of the book summarising the meaning of the evidence in the twin indices. The second part of the chapter comments on the contribution of the study. It argues that the positive impacts of social education are substantiated by wellbeing approaches that incorporate compound dimensions of women’s capability and empowerment, where wellbeing is contingent on equality. It is further argued that agent-oriented learning approaches focused on power relations could help to transform structural oppression. This study finds serious challenges on income inequality for formally educated women. The book stresses that tackling ‘education unemployment’, along with multiple other gender inequalities beyond the workplace, is a policy imperative. Social education needs to play a significant role in such interventions. Highlighting this is the evidence that 18% of women respondents ‘never completed any (formal) education’. Explaining the potential transformative role of social education, the chapter ends with stories told by Grihini graduates. These are presented to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the challenges of everyday living and of the complex gains from empowerment, namely confidence, decision-making, and capability for self-help and productive engagement with others.
