6) Hedo Feminista Pillars of Female Power:

a. Intellectual Empowerment: One of the greatest barriers to equality is restricting access to education for women and girls. In many places in the world, girls are forbidden from attending school, not taught to read or write, and limited to only learning domestic duties. Though it is changing, many young women see business or current affairs as less feminine. We argue that female education and independent intellectual thought is a bedrock for personal empowerment and equality.

b. Economic Empowerment: Women make up a disproportionate number of the most economically disadvantaged on the planet. Still, many women have no choice but to rely on a man to provide for them. Being an EcoFeminist Entrepreneur is a great way to change the world and give yourself a meaningful job in the process.

c. Physical Empowerment: Ending violence against women is still one of the primary problems facing women worldwide. Law enforcement can only do so much to protect women and more needs to be done to encourage women's physical empowerment. What can we do to help women and girls feel more confident to defend and fight for themselves? One way could be to advocate self-defense and weapons training including mace, tear gas, pepper spray, guns.

Hollywood which is often accused of chauvinism, has cultivated a culture of female 'warriors' that gives support to models of strong women. Sexually and physically, for the first time in centuries, women are celebrated for achieving success by their own marksmanship and violent prowess! Movies like Wonder Woman and Hunger Games with strong female characters who are capable of defending themselves and yet retaining their 'femininity'. Judging by the attendance at the movies, both men, and women like these new 'Warrior Women' role models.

d. Environmental Empowerment: Endeavors that protect the environment also serves to help women. Across the world, women's work is disproportionally more connected to the earth and dramatically affected by climate change. Initiatives that improve humanity's relationship with Mother Earth also help to improve the lives of women and our attitudes towards the feminine. Connecting to nature is also empowering to women who in a modern world can often feel disconnected from nature sometimes out of fear of being perceived as less feminine.

e. Reproductive Empowerment: Providing women with the supplies and access to information that allows them to make informed decisions about their own bodies and reproductive health. The after-effects of a sexual encounter generally have far greater repercussions for women and unwanted pregnancy can seriously limit a woman's options in life.

f. Sexual Empowerment: Recent years have seen a growing movement against the severe disparity between men and women in terms of language and perceptions of sexual expression: from attempts to legalize sex work to SlutWalks around the world, many people are working towards shifting the balance of this double standard.

One of the great mistakes of the traditional feminist movement was to equate female sexuality and male desire with the 'objectification' and subjugation of women. While there is no doubt this happens, viewing female sexuality as a weapon in the war of the genders caused many men and women to shy away from feminism.

Sex-positive feminism emphasizes women as victors and not victims! In the 'Slutwalks' that happen across the world, the marchers tend to be young women. Their grandmother and mothers of traditional feminism often look on with disdain.

g. Legal Empowerment: Legal empowerment applies in part to each of the other areas previously detailed. When business lobbies on behalf of women or works to change the laws to move towards greater rights and equality for women, they would certainly then be classified as an ecofeminist enterprise. However, it is a fact that women do not have the same legal rights as much either in theory or in practice across much of the world.