- Women are expected to maintain typically female roles: cooking, cleaning, taking care of children, weaving, etc. In some instances, men also cook and weave, but generally women fill these roles. These are the expectations of women in the villages, whereas many women living in the cities hold jobs.
- Though these jobs may also seem stereotypical (teacher, waitress, housekeeper), just having a job for a Ni-Van woman is quite an advancement.
- Foreign women are expected by the Ni-Van people to be more advanced in society.
- One very important thing for foreign women to remember in is the dress code. Women in don’t show their legs above the knees. They wear westernized clothing, but their dresses and skirts are all at least knee length.
- It is considered disrespectful to yourself and to the culture to dress in short skirts, dresses, or shorts.
- Men, however, do not follow the same dress code. The rule for men is usually anything goes.
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