ACS Old Girls need to not just exercise their full political rights as equal citizens and voters in this country alongside the males, but to also provide political leadership, to “stand up and be counted” on critical issues.

They need to express their solidarity, on shared principles and beliefs, with the Old Boys and Old Girls of any other school, not as a united ACS Old Girls “gang”, but as PNGPs- Principled Non-Gang Persons.

That is what would lead to sustainable empowerment of women, bringing them out of their “boxes”, for the good of Fiji.

• Extracted from an essay by Dr. Warden Nary