If we had a history of women staying at home and only tending to infants and the like, it would somewhat be understandable but
even though the biggest contribution of a woman above any labour indeed the birthing of a new generation. Conquering and the like wouldn’t even be possible without women birthing these soldiers.
But as for Somalis, nomadic women did a lot. To such an extent that these foreigners that came to Somalia even said that Somali women outworked their lords as they put it:
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This isn’t the first time I’ve come across such a sentiment before. Hence, If our female ancestors worked incredibly hard, why are we excluded from the table?
Even now back home, if you go to the market places or the side of the roads, you see a Somali woman out in the sun all day selling stuff to put food on the take for h6 kids but still we’re spoken to like Somali women are pampered women who’ve never worked hard labour.
Forget Somalia, when you look at agricultural societies, women make up nearly 50% of the labour and produces and in:
‘In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa,
60% of women work in agriculture.’
Also more than half of the food we eat are produced by women!
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