A phase that almost every growing girl faces is centring men’s feelings. Even men learn to centre other men’s feelings thanks to our patriarchal upbringing.
Everyday Feminism
Everyday Feminism highlights feminist issues which affect women daily. We are discussing everyday discrimination, everyday violence against women, everyday inequality of the sexes.
Professional spaces are not devoid of sexism and misogyny. We spoke to three women about sexist workplace experiences they’d had or witnessed and, these experiences mirror those of many other women.
We spoke to some women about their unique experiences and how they are treated because they look somehow that was deemed “unsatisfactory” by societal standards.
Grace was in a student council meeting that was making plans for a marathon. She decided to contribute, suggesting that they provide refreshments for the athletes and spectators. The man…
In recent times, feminist hate has been at an all-time high on Nigerian Twitter. The deliberate antagonism of feminists is not new but it has certainly intensified.
Who even is an ally? An ally is a person who supports the advancement of the cause of a marginalised demographic even though they are not part of that group.
This person, understanding that they are in a privileged position (as they are not victims of the oppression the marginalised group is fighting against),…
Being a woman in male-dominated fields is not a breeze. As if day to day workplace stress is not enough, some sexist workplace conventions further reduce the quality of the working experience for women.
One of the most palpable elements of the patriarchy is the rigid gender role impositions on men and women. Society prescribes what passes as acceptable and unacceptable behaviour and scorns and punishes anyone who fails to fall neatly behind the line.
For many women, thoughts of home are riddled with instances of antagonism and dehumanisation.
Historically, women have had to fight for the rights freely given to men. For black women, this struggle is double.
The treatment of women as secondary human beings is pervasive in all aspects of patriarchal societies like Nigeria. Everyday, mundane, unproblematic activities like renting an apartment (where there are no financial difficulties) should be relatively simple.