Frommel D
Centre international de l'enfance et de la famille, carrefour de Longchamp, 75016 Paris, France.
Sante. 1999 Mar-Apr;9(2):115-7.
Has the world of women changed? So wonders a one-time champion of what was then called women's rights, and is now known as women's empowerment, in the Third World. She recalls her surprise when she listened to advocates of birth spacing as a young mother. She remembers the debates she attended: "Today development, tomorrow the Pill", "Women's education is the key to progress", the speculations of western feminists ignorant of the burden of traditions kept alive elsewhere. She is now concerned about the resolution of the Beijing conference, assigning the protection of the environment and responsibility for domestic husbandry to women. Is this not yet another abdication of male responsibility? Should she once again stand up and deliver a harangue at an international meeting or should she instead pursue the quiet, self-effacing weaving of networks between the women of the North and South?
女性的世界改变了吗？一位曾是第三世界中所谓女权（如今称为妇女赋权）倡导者的人对此感到疑惑。她回忆起自己年轻时作为母亲听到生育间隔倡导者言论时的惊讶。她记得参加过的那些辩论：“今日发展，明日避孕药”，“女性教育是进步的关键”，以及西方女权主义者那些忽视了其他地方依然存在的传统负担的种种推测。她如今对北京会议的决议感到担忧，该决议将环境保护和家务管理的责任都交给了女性。这难道不是男性责任的又一次推卸吗？她是应该再次站起来在国际会议上慷慨陈词，还是应该转而在南北女性之间默默、谦逊地编织关系网络呢？
