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Although African women continue to make solid progress in becoming part of the political scene, there are limitations associated with this progress. More African women are beginning to enter the political landscape and are making great strides in influencing policies that favors the advancement of women.

It is commonly taught in textbooks or shown in the media that colonial mothers are always taking part in childcare, but in reality the “modern working women” (1) spends more time taking care of their children. During the hours that modern women are not working, they are usually taking care of the children and doing household work to manage the household, in which the “traditional family” seems more fitting in categorizing the modern family, rather than the colonial family. The colonial women did not have to worry about taking care of the children, because they usually gave the task of caring for the children to the servants or older siblings. Moreover, the traditional family are usually perceived as a family where the husband and wife are role models of a loving, caring, and supportive relationship for their children. This leads the children to act in the same positive way with others by observing the relationship between their parents. Interestingly, the “traditional” families in the past were not traditional, as women and children were advised to be obedient to their husbands, otherwise they would be abused and

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie highlights the often challenging lives of Nigerian women living in Africa, but also abroad in the United States. It is however, not the difficulties which Adichie is ultimately focusing on, but the courage and intelligence of women who are able to make ‘small victories’, overcoming various attempts of cultural oppression.

The role of women in society has grown and changed tremendously with the development of the world. Within the American culture, women’s rights have expanded to the extent of being able to vote for who runs our country or even possibly being the person that does run our country. Although the American culture has somewhat promoted the growth of a woman’s role in society, does not mean women receive the same respect in other cultures around world. For example, in Africa women are viewed lower on the totem pole of importance even though without them the village would fall apart. Chinua Achebe is an author that was born and raised in a village of Nigeria. From growing up there, Achebe understands the culture of Africa better than

Throughout history women have often played a significant role. Although women haven’t usually been a position of power, they have nonetheless often contributed in significant ways. Two women who impacted their societies were Empress Theodora-of the Byzantine empire-and Queen Elizabeth I-of England. Empress Theodora-of the Byzantine Empire-impacted her Empire in many ways. Some of the ways she impacted her Empire was by delivering a powerful speech, by promoting women's rights, helping Justinian recover things after the Nika Revolt.

Throughout history gender has played a defining role in the structure and function of civilizations all over the world. Women were usually deemed as inferior to men in most nations thus leading to a plethora of unfair treatment and social unrest. There were, however, various times in history when women actually stood up for their rights as human beings and spoke out against these atrocities. An example of this is the story of Abina, a young African woman who was unlawfully enslaved in 1876. She made the courageous decision to run away and speak out against her master in court despite insurmountable odds. A political and business world dominated by men led to her case being unjustly dismissed despite having proof to back up her grievances. Just like many other cases at this time, the fact that Abina was a woman worked against her. Quamina Eddoo, his lawyer William Melton, and the all-male jury condemned Abina from the beginning thus leading to her accusations against the accused as being dismissed. The case was doomed from the beginning because of the established societal norm that women were inferior to men. In almost every example of early colonization, the role of women has been greatly devalued and ignored as the male populace strived to be the most powerful and important figures in society.

One of Leymah Gbowee’s greatest accomplishments is leading the women’s peace movement, which had a major part in ending the fourteen-year civil war in Liberia. This

They say behind every great man is a great woman. According to Carol Berkin’s book, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence, the same could be said about revolutions. Often in studies of the American Revolution men take center stage, while women wait in the wings and make brief appearances. Berkin’s book uses the stories of real women, some well known like Abigail Adams and some lesser know like Sybil Ludington, turn the spotlight on to the important role women play in the shaping of the history of the United States.

Women are often thought of as the weaker, more vulnerable of the two sexes. Thus, women’s roles in literature are often subdued and subordinate. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, women are repressed by an entrenched structure of the social repression. Women suffer great losses in this novel but, also in certain circumstances, hold tremendous power. Achebe provides progressively changing attitudes towards women’s role. At first glance, the women in Things Fall Apart may seem to be an oppressed group with little power and this characterization is true to some extent. However, this characterization of Igbo women reveals itself to be prematurely simplistic as well as limiting, once

These courageous Liberian women – mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters - organized a protest at the fish market in Monrovia every day to dance and pray. During the rain or heat, these women armed only with a white T-shirt gathered at the market to demand a meeting with President Taylor to talk about a resolution to the country’s political struggle. They stood up to President Taylor for months by creating signs calling for peace and handed out fliers asking the NPFL’s government to stop killing their children. The women gathered at the side of the road that President Taylor traveled to his executive mansion twice a day. This moment was significant for the women’s peace movement who took brave stance in the name of peace. President Taylor invited

As a woman growing up in Liberia, Leymah Gbowee experienced many situations in which women were mistreated and abused, while their voices were suppressed. Many of these women were denied what many consider basic rights.

Women and men have had certain roles in society that were understood amongst them to be specified for their particular gender. Males were known to have the leading role as head of the house hold and the bread winner while the woman’s duty was to stay at home and take care of the house and children. While many people years ago deemed this way of life and practice to be the right and ethical thing to do, times have changed and so this kind of treatment towards a woman’s equality must be questioned. Even though times have changed, this mindset of a woman’s ability to be as good as a man has not completely gone away. In today’s society a woman contributes to the economy and her family as equally as that of a man. Therefore, women should share equal rights and opportunities as their gender counterparts.

Since the Colonial Period, the roles of women have changed drastically. For instance, during this period women were in charge of the household, and generally did activities such as spinning, weaving, and churning—work that only benefitted their families. Today, however, women are in postions of power and are in charge of more important issues than just looking after her family's well-being. In addition, women now have the same freedom as men do, and have broken the gender stereotype that a woman's main purpose in life is to serve her husband, as well as that their identity is linked to the men in their lives. In short, women are now free to speak their minds, are in positons of power, and have the same rights as men hold.

The African woman’s story, rather herstory, is an evolution of strength, enterprise, and resilience, and the triumph over struggle. The paramount objective of this research paper is to scrutinize the evolution of power, and significance held by African women in society. The nature of the topic requires a sequential and comparative analysis of women in three critical periods, pre-slavery, slavery, and the colonial period. Western influences transformed the cultural landscape of African society, through patriarchy (seldom unaccompanied by women’s oppression), imposed religion, and gender constructs. Prior to slavery African women were critical to all aspects of society. There was a dramatic reform of power and significance during slavery,

In some places around the world, women are treated different from men. In the Igbo society women, are treated like pieces of property and not humans, they are made to act and dress a certain way, and everything in their society is gendered. This relates to women in the world now. Today, women are standing up, and being treated equally. In the Igbo society, women did not stand up for their beliefs because, they would not be treated equally