In Africa, women discrimination is very evident in terms of education, child marriages, harmful practices, domestic violence, economic empowerment, leadership and reproductive health. With these, poverty is deemed constant in Africa. In settings where limited educational or economic opportunities exist, pressure of poverty lead women and young girls to find means of survival at all cost.
Harmful practices, such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), leave young girls with health problems that make them weak and even some die. In male dominated societies, where women have no say, these female counterparts are used as objects to fend for food and look after the families. Most of them are physically assaulted (dog beatings) by their spouses. Now, such women are not economically motivated and they shy off - believing they can't do anything meaningful. Continue...
