CED builds on both the capacities of young women, and community supports, to maximize resources. Programs and supports offered to young women through the network of community organizations they already access can start to work with young women as individuals to prepare them to enter into the waged economy. If young women are to share equally in efforts toward CED, the gendered implications of the programs must be considered. A gender-based analysis of current CED programs would likely find divisions between the types of CED activities women and men do. Women can be found doing community.
