reproductive roles are those associated with child rearing raising and caretaking of the home ie cooking and cleaning community involvement highlights those tasks related to collective support and community gain feminists have also highlighted the importance of the collective dimensions of empowerment and power in addition to individual empowerment for example see srilatha batliwala the meaning of women s empowerment new concepts from action in g sen a germain and l c chen eds population policies reconsidered health empowerment and rights pp