Finding clean water is a constant battle for women and girls across the African countries. Clean water within these countries are so scarce that in Somalia, 70% of the whole population does not receive clean drinkable water (Africa Public Health Info). That’s almost 7 million people according to the 2013 Census (The World Bank). Collecting water for the family has always been seen as the women’s domestic responsibility (DoSomething.org). African women get up as early as 3:00 A.M. and spend on average 4-11 hours per day searching and collecting water (Davie) however this does not account for the additional time spend to protect and store their water. Since the privatization of water across African countries, the prices of water sold have
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Women and girls usually get up hours before men and brothers do to collect water. Why is this the case though? Why don’t men help out the burden by carrying water or collect water? Hasn’t everyone globally achieved gender equality? While most us might think everyone is living in a safe environment, we are only thinking within the narrow minded bubble. In the case of Ghanan women, they are faced with water collection, household responsibilities and they provide a big portion of the financial support for their family, however the men don’t acknowledge the financial contribution and there are seen as “less valued” Also men tend to see women only in the perspective that they are mothers or caretakers who stay home (Archer 386).This kind of gender inequality doesn’t only occur in Ghana, but also in villages in Tanzania. In a small tribe in Tanzania called Masai many women and girls end up doing the back breaking work. These works include: building huts, collecting water, and herding cattle. They live in a strict patriarchal society where men ruled over “their women similarly to how they dominate their cattle.” Women are seen and treated like an animal and consider them to be inhumane. The tribes also rely heavily on traditional beliefs where women are completely dependent on their husbands, and held no rights at all. The men and women in this tribe also hardly interacted with each other and a wife is not allowed to speak to her husband until spoken by him first. Such outrageous inequality when concerning gender role ect, they are also brutally abused and beat. The men traditionally beat their wives as a sense of laughter (DoSomething). According to Debuty president Kgalema Notlanthe, “90% of South African women have experienced emotional and physical abuse, and 71% have experienced sexual abuse (Powell). It’s this kind of unjust inequality that makes women work hours upon hours of
Women and girls usually get up hours before men and brothers do to collect water. Why is this the case though? Why don’t men help out the burden by carrying water or collect water? Hasn’t everyone globally achieved gender equality? While most us might think everyone is living in a safe environment, we are only thinking within the narrow minded bubble. In the case of Ghanan women, they are faced with water collection, household responsibilities and they provide a big portion of the financial support for their family, however the men don’t acknowledge the financial contribution and there are seen as “less valued” Also men tend to see women only in the perspective that they are mothers or caretakers who stay home (Archer 386).This kind of gender inequality doesn’t only occur in Ghana, but also in villages in Tanzania. In a small tribe in Tanzania called Masai many women and girls end up doing the back breaking work. These works include: building huts, collecting water, and herding cattle. They live in a strict patriarchal society where men ruled over “their women similarly to how they dominate their cattle.” Women are seen and treated like an animal and consider them to be inhumane. The tribes also rely heavily on traditional beliefs where women are completely dependent on their husbands, and held no rights at all. The men and women in this tribe also hardly interacted with each other and a wife is not allowed to speak to her husband until spoken by him first. Such outrageous inequality when concerning gender role ect, they are also brutally abused and beat. The men traditionally beat their wives as a sense of laughter (DoSomething). According to Debuty president Kgalema Notlanthe, “90% of South African women have experienced emotional and physical abuse, and 71% have experienced sexual abuse (Powell). It’s this kind of unjust inequality that makes women work hours upon hours of