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Hi! It is a question that has made me think almost every time! Here are a few points I’ve gathered to help me with:

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1. Education and Awareness:
   • Promote feminist education that includes a well-rounded understanding of feminist theories, history, and activism. This can help individuals recognize the broader context of feminism and the interplay between personal empowerment and systemic change.
2. Intersectional Analysis:
   • Emphasize intersectionality as a core component of feminist activism. Encourage discussions that acknowledge how different identities and structural inequalities intersect and affect women’s lives differently. This can help ensure that personal empowerment efforts are inclusive.
3. Media Literacy:
   • Teach media literacy skills to help people critically analyze and deconstruct messages from consumer culture. Show how lifestyle feminism can sometimes be co-opted by advertising and the media to sell products.
4. Empowerment Through Knowledge:
   • Emphasize the importance of informed choices. Encourage women to make decisions about their lifestyles and consumption patterns based on a solid understanding of the implications and potential consequences.
5. Advocate for Structural Change:
   • While individual empowerment is valuable, it should be balanced with advocacy for structural changes. Encourage feminist activists to also engage in efforts to challenge systemic inequalities and discrimination.
6. Community Building:
   • Promote the building of supportive feminist communities where women can share experiences, learn from each other, and collectively address both personal and structural challenges.
7. Self-Care with a Purpose:
   • Encourage self-care practices that go beyond consumerism and emphasize mental and emotional well-being, activism, and political engagement. Self-care should be seen as a means to sustain one’s involvement in the feminist movement, rather than as a replacement for activism.
8. Ethical Consumption:
   • Encourage ethical and conscious consumption, where individuals consider the social and environmental impact of their choices. This aligns with feminist values and can be empowering without being purely lifestyle-oriented.
9. Dialogue and Inclusivity:
   • Foster open dialogues that respect diverse perspectives within feminism. Recognize that some individuals may find personal empowerment through lifestyle choices, but emphasize the importance of combining those choices with broader activism and awareness of systemic issues.
10. Empowerment as a Means, Not an End:
    • Remind individuals that personal empowerment is a means to an end—gender equality and social change—rather than an end in itself. Encourage them to channel their empowerment into efforts that advance feminist goals.

Gender biases can sneak into tech and AI in various ways.

For example, when AI is trained on data that’s not neutral, if most of the examples it learns from show men in high-paying jobs, it might unfairly favour men in job recommendations, making it harder for women to get those opportunities. The result? Unfair treatment based on gender

This is important to talk about, especially when we know that artificial intelligence is penetrating every walk of life. According to research by Nesta (2019), there is a serious gender diversity crisis in AI research.
Only 13.83 percent of authors are women, and, in relative terms, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not improved since the 1990s. A UN Women’s study shows that global analysis of 133 AI systems across industries found that 44.2 percent revealed a gender bias, which is simply alarming. All the stakeholders—governments, policymakers, and public and private organisations—need to come forward to create equitable platforms, making women not just technologists but business leaders in the AI and tech space.

Academia can seem exclusive, but there are ways to open it up. To enter, start with online courses and libraries, which are more accessible. To open up the academic space, people—both academicians and non-academicians—have to promote open-access research and affordable textbooks to share knowledge widely.

We have to encourage diverse voices by welcoming people from different backgrounds and experiences. Make research processes transparent and easy to understand, and hold open seminars and events. Collaborate with the public through workshops and community partnerships. By embracing these changes, we can make academia more inclusive, allowing everyone to participate in creating and accessing knowledge. This community itself is one way by which one makes knowledge accessible, as it provides knowledge seekers and givers a common platform to engage—we all have something worth sharing and talking about.