Thousands of years of cultural influence that isolated women from political and economic spheres and forced them to accept lower social status, seem also to make women's struggle unachievable, at least in the near future.
This is because the attitudes of both men and women to each other are institutionalised and therefore slow to change.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article