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　　If they are to achieve gender equality,/women must work to help themselves.// Graduates of the school/are beginning to share their knowledge and training/with other women in the community.// Some women have started small businesses/growing vegetables to protect their families/from unstable cacao prices.// Rosine and Yaoua,/both graduates of the school,/lead a women’s society/to help girls get an education.// Yaoua says,/“Women don’t have to be behind men.// We are worthy too.”//
　　The project/to help the invisible women farmers of Côte d’Ivoire/has gone global.// In Latin America,/Fairtrade opened leadership schools/in Guatemala and El Salvador.// In Asia,/Fairtrade also opened schools/in Indonesia and India in 2019.// The goal is to promote empowerment/and raise awareness of human rights.//
　　I began by asking you/to think about where chocolate comes from.// Then we listened/to the voices of the invisible women cacao farmers/in Côte d’Ivoire.// That led to the question/of how to overcome the gender gap.//
　　Now,/let’s think about our own lives and societies.// How much have we accomplished/and how much more do we have to do/in order to close our own gender gap?//