Women in the program become better at thinking, at explaining, and at talking to fellow-villagers. They begin to think about their future and that of their children, said M. Ramli, village secretary of Majannang in Maros, South Sulawesi, in a sharing session between three women's groups last October. The statement raised certain questions: Did he think that women couldn't think about their families' futures before? What was it that had pushed these