One of the key issues raised by the Pathways Programme’s research is that facilitating positive change in women’s lives is not possible without changing the underlying structures of constraint. These include not only cultural and social norms which validate the unjust and unequal treatment of women – norms visible and represented through mechanisms such as restrictive laws, unequal pay and conditions, stereotypical representations of women in the media + but also include limits to the horizons of possibility or sense of entitlement that are internalized by women themselves.

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