Igbo Gender Equality

Gender equality is differ depending on the place that a person is from. Some can be treated with respect and others with disrespect. For example, in the Igbo culture you can say that women are somewhat like slaves, perhaps. In Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe women are portrayed in a boring, sad, and horrible situation. In other words, they are seen weak and useless because of how they are represented as a person.
In the Igbo culture a women can be treated depending on their appearance, where they come from, and/or their family history. Women in this culture can’t really do anything by themselves. They have to have their husband's permission in order for them to go out. Their job is mainly to have the kids, cook, clean, crop, and take care …show more content…
They don't make the rules. Mainly every woman lives in fear because they are afraid of what their husbands will do to them. The men are the ones in charge of what the women and children are suppose to do. In chapter two, the narrator was saying that “his wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper” (Achebe 13). Men in the Igbo culture get tempered fast whenever a women did such a small thing. For example, when Ojiugo wasn't in her hut and left her children with Okonkwo's first wife, Okonkwo got furious because she wasn't present to cook the meal she was supposed to. Even though his first and second wife had cooked a meal for him he still wanted the meal from his third wife because that is the tradition. “And when she returned he beat her very heavily” (Achebe 29) he didn't care if it was the sacred week when he got angry he got angry. Anyone that is a women should be scared of a person that rules you especially if they get bothered. Men “rule” that is why they are allowed to beat and even sell their own wife. This is why women let themselves get treated this way because they have no voice in the culture to defend