Tag: gender inequality

Joshua Ononose May 12, 2023

The Counter-Culture Blog: ‘Ashawo’ – The Nigerian Reaction to Nonconformist Women

Misogyny, the prejudice, and discrimination against women, manifests itself in various ways across different societies. Nigeria, with its cultural diversity, is not immune to this problem. One prevalent manifestation of…

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Ado Aminu September 27, 2021

Religious conversion is all fun and games unless you are a woman

For a majority of religious people, life’s ultimate goal is the reward they are promised in an afterlife. Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana are the rewards for good behaviour if you have…

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Ado Aminu January 27, 2021

Female privilege is a misnomer for sexism. Here’s some evidence

Time and again when women speak of the discrimination they face at work, home, the work place and in everyday life, an oft-repeated response from men is, “but you have…

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Omoleye Omoruyi August 8, 2017

Google sacks employee for “making incorrect assumptions about gender”

According to reports, Google has fired a male engineer at the center of a racket in Silicon Valley after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind…

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Op-ed Editor April 4, 2017

Opinion: The travails of Nigerian women

by Olusola Adeyoose   BACKGROUND      About four years ago, something quite instructive happened at the University of Ibadan. It was the students’ union elections and a rather daring lady was…

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