Yet if Sen and other capability scholars label capabilities as freedoms, then what kind of freedoms are capabilities? As Kaufman (2006a) has shown, understanding capability as an opportunity concept of freedom, rather than some other kind of freedom, may undermine mistaken critiques on Sen’s work. A careful reading of Sen’s work clarifies that capabilities are freedoms conceived as real opportunities (Sen 1985a, 3–4; 1985d, 201; 2002, chapter 20). 