Throughout the world there is a major push by global leaders to promote the importance of women in socioeconomic development.
It is not just about the ability to nurture or there realization directive that everyone is important, it is about the balance that women can bring to sustaining equality and positive change.
With so much disarray in Haiti women that are empowered to lead at the community level can begin to provide some direction and develop strategies during the overall development process.
What this enables, is creating a peaceful, non-confrontational setting that can minimize the chaos amongst the Haitian people.
Studies show that where there are women empowered societies there is existence of "social and economic policies (that) give more support to traits and activities such as caregiving, nonviolence, empathy".[