Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Who does the work?

It often seems like women do the hard work in Africa - at least in rural parts. (I think it's true in other parts of the world too. My wife does a lot of the hard work in our marriage - by being a mom!)

This photo was taken in Tanzania by our friends, the Stephens. They went there on a safari recently.

4 comments:

  1. Amazing life events.

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    All the best,
    Adela

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  2. Women did most of the harder work in traditional Africa: trade (barter), house (hut) building, child rearing, herding, crop farming.

    Men were left with iron mongery(?), fishing (never seen a fisherwoman anywhere in the world), ...

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  3. True, toneloc!

    I forgot that men are always the ones who are out chiseling & carrying heavy stones in the hot sun...

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