title: [The time is ripe for listening to the voice of the half of the world].
abstract: 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?
authors.affiliation: Centre international de l'enfance et de la famille, carrefour de Longchamp, 75016 Paris, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frommel
mesh_terms: D003267:Contraception; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D014933:Women's Rights
vernacular_title: Le temps presse pour écouter la voix de la moitié du monde.