Love Mercy Foundation’s Post

Through Cents for Seeds, our aim is to empower rural women in northern Uganda to overcome the multiple disadvantages they face. We do this by partnering with local communities to combat the disparities in education, economic status, gender and class between men and women. Intersectionality is a term that's caught on in the last few years. But what does it actually mean and what has it got to do with empowering women? Put simply, intersectionality is the concept that systems of inequality involve multiple intersecting forms of disadvantage. Intersectionality is an important consideration in building gender equality because it helps us understand how different forms of disadvantage interact and exacerbate inequality. If we fail to consider intersectionality, our efforts to empower women might be limited in their impact and could even worsen the situation for them. To empower rural women, we need diverse and complex solutions that acknowledge and address the fact that gender inequality does not act alone, but together with other forms of disadvantage. #LoveMercy #CentsForSeeds #GenderEquality #IntersectionalDisadvantage #Intersectionality

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