Name to empower: a critical look at language – Rebelion

A few days ago I read a journalistic note entitled: “Bolivian women are formed as plumbers to guarantee water in their communities” in a Spanish newspaper, about a group of women who have broken schemes by training themselves as plumbers in Arani, Cochabamba, thanks to a workshop promoted by the NGO Water for People and the Embassy of Canada. More than 70 women, between the ages of 16 and 67, learned not only installation of toilets and irrigati…