‘Be the change that you wish to see in the world’. .
How does an international women’s organisation with a hundred year history put Mahatma Gandhi’s famous call to action into practice in 2015? Especially one subject to the plurality of analysis of its diverse membership, which puts patriarchy or capitalism or class or nationalism or racism or other ‘dominant systems’ in the frame as the main reason for the need for change, depending on whose view prevails.
Putting these sources of oppression in competition with each other as the main problem for women or the main causes of war and conflict is as old as 20th and 21st century feminism, and many a women’s initiative has floundered in long drawn-out and failed attempts to settle the argument.
