Seeds, Stories & Solidarity (Fall 2025) - Magazine - Page 49
RFM: How did you go about making that happen?
NW: [With] a lot of work. And it was not my work only, it was
the work of thousands of women in many organizations.
And by the time we had our third assembly in Bangalore
in 2000, we pushed through structural change which
would give us [gender] parity in the leadership of the
organization. There were always women’s articulations, and
in many regions, particularly in South and Central America
[with] very powerful women’s organizations. But this was the
next step to actually inserting ourselves—not as auxiliary—
but as militants, activists at the core of the organization.
It’s always been my view that it’s not good enough to
say women make big contributions—we can clearly
demonstrate that, [but] that doesn’t get us into decision
making places. And that doesn’t get us genuine equality,
dignity, and recognition of our work, our expertise, our
enormous life force in this whole question of how food and
environment and social justice are interconnected.
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