Which approach is crucial for empowering rural women, leading to community development?
Promoting gender-specific vocational training and education
Women's empowerment works by expanding women's capabilities, skills and access to income, which in turn improves household welfare, child education and nutrition and strengthens the wider community.
Promoting gender-specific vocational training and education directly builds these capabilities — it gives rural women marketable skills, literacy and the means to earn, participate in decision-making and become financially independent.
The other options work against empowerment: limiting education to urban centres excludes rural women, focussing solely on men's employment ignores women altogether, and restricting women to traditional household duties denies them opportunity and mobility.
Hence, the crucial approach is promoting gender-specific vocational training and education.
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