Are Women Really Weak

Most men call them the weaker sex, some say they are too lazy for comfort while others conclude they complain about every little effort or service they render.

These are the description of women by our men.

Weaker sex indeed! It is pertinent to note that women contribute meaningfully to the up keep of their homes, so why must their efforts, no matter how little not be noticed.

Appreciated and rewarded accordingly. No woman sits down at home in this computer age as full time or centre table house wife.

They toil day and night to supplement the effort of their husbands.

They carry available loads, peel all the oranges, pineapples during the season, roast corn and bear, travel distances mostly in rickety vehicles at night to buy items like vegetables pumpkin, Okro to sell for survival. It is very unfair to womanhood that their effort is not commended.

This same weaker sex wrap babies on their back while performing their domestic duties at home.

There are families who live in storey buildings and have no regular supply of water, it is the weaker sex that places a bucket on her head to get water for household use in a typical African society, those are the obligation a woman owes her family. A typical African culture demands that a woman sits at home and takes care of her home (family) she knows nothing like education or job. The man goes to the farm or steam to fish while she tides up the home and prepares any available food for the man or possibly take it to the farm.

I thank God for civilization has introduced to the society a culture of education and job opportunities for the women.

Those who for one reason or the other could not acquire education go into training of various skills.

To be candid we are in the period of maize roasting and you see young girls fully engaged occupying themselves trying hard to make ends meet.

Plantain roasting with fish women are seen every day carrying loads on their heads, shoulders and a baby wrapped on their backs, yet they are the weaker sex.

For no reason would she return home after much blessings from the sun and rain, refuse her man his meal, she must run into the kitchen to prepare his meal. Yet they are the weaker sex.

If it were possible for men to carry pregnancies. I believe they should be given a chance so that the pains would be felt b both parties.

Women are weaker sex, yet they move all moveables during pregnancy indeed a woman is full of energy, but because men are like babies who never grow no amount of effort put up by he woman satisfies them. Instead they say the women are weaker sex.

Julie Jumbo