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women’s empowerment project leadership conference. Mansfield Center The University of Montana October 12, 2012. Cindy Garthwait MSW, LCSW Professor School of Social Work. Empowerment Leadership Social Justice. Empowerment Leadership Social Justice. Empowerment Leadership Social Justice.
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women’s empowerment project leadership conference Mansfield Center The University of Montana October 12, 2012
Cindy Garthwait MSW, LCSW Professor School of Social Work
Women’s Empowerment • Given? • Taken? • Shared? • Multiplied? • Squandered? • Forces for empowerment • Forces against empowerment • Scarcity paradigm • Visioning
Fruits of Empowerment • Imagination • Creativity • Individual prosperity • Shared prosperity • Possibility thinking • Multipliers • Clustering • Taken for granted
2012 Nobel Peace Prize Winner(announced today in Oslo) Maybe it will be Mansfield Center Women’s Empowerment Program
Leadership Theories • Big Event or Big Woman Theory • Trait Theory • Choice Theory Bass, B and Bass, R. The Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.
Big Event or Big Woman Theory • Mohammad Bouazzi of Tunisia • Unsung heroines everywhere • Strain theory • Catalyst
Trait Theory • Universal • Inherent • Acquired • Necessary
Choice Theory • Impetus for choice • Social environment • Self-preparation • Self-motivation
Value Base Theory (Garthwait) • Personal calling • Human rights base • Professional ethics • “I can’t NOT do it.”
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United NationsMillennium Development Goals 1) End poverty and hunger 2) Universal education 3) Gender equity 4) Child health 5) Maternal Health 6) Combat HIV/AIDS 7) Environmental sustainability 8) Global partnerships
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