- At the village level women are generally treated like second-class citizens. Their opinion about things are not asked or wanted. If there is only enough money to send one or two kids to school, the boys will be chosen before the girls, even if the boys do not have a desire to go to school.
- Women tend to the children at home, get the well water, wash clothes, cook, clean, plant the crops and harvest them. Women in the village are not to drink alcohol or coffee or smoke.
- In the city, there’s more equality between men and women, but not quite like the more egalitarian western countries.
- Foreign women are called the “3rd sex” – not like men or women. It is generally accepted that they drink and hang out in town although many people may not consider them as physically strong as Burkinabe women or capable of doing the same tasks.
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