[civsoc-mw] Women demo on equality.

[KPD]

A different perspective.

Botswana has always had co-education. Whether boarding or day schools. No
seperate boys and girls schools.

Women hold very high positions as PSs, Directors, principals and deputy
principals of tertiary institutions. They own big companies and businesses.

By the 80s women were already admitted to any programme at tertiary
institutions.

Co-education at all levels without exception was normal. It was weird to
Nyasa people who grew up knowing girls and boys could not go to same
boarding secondary schools.

I don't know if there was a boarding secondary school in Malawi where cooks
were women. It has always been normal in Botswana with women cooks, chefs,
taxi and combi drivers, drivers of huge 100 ton mine trucks etc.

The point is, our system creates gender inequality right from young age.
Combine that with decades of women being told what to wear and not wear.

I don't know of any African country where women dancing for president was
institutionalised like Malawi. Yes we popularised osunga mwambo and it is
the very same phrase which is propagating inequality.

The best way as it were is to start with both boy and girl child. Let them
grow up together so that they can learn from early age how to treat each
other with respect.

Tisamaone azimai ngati mitchini yopanga ana.

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020, 14:29 Keyboard Boyd Kilembey, <kkilembe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have the same experience. A grace chavula. She was very bright. She went
> to Lilongwe Girls. I went to Mitundu night. Next I hear she was at Poly
> doing secretarial studies while I went to chanco doing general degree ya
> mabwana. I still think she should have been a PS or vice chancellor of
> Unima. Some study indeed needs to be undertaken
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020, 11:16 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As much as I support the concept of equality and protection of women
>> empowerment, the only Act of parliament I have seen is on GBV. On boards it
>> is only Environment management Board that there is a stipulation on board
>> composition.
>>
>> I want to create CIVSOC forum board, can women here raise their hand so
>> that I I include them. If the board comprise KBK,TC, LN, SK, LN, CWG, some
>> women somewhere will demonstrate.
>>
>> Zinthu za maquota maybe politically correct but it is up to us as
>> individuals to stand up and be counted. Not because of our noise but our
>> worth.
>>
>> Inu azimai, don't normalise kumamenyedwa mapama. Don't normalise
>> kumaumilizidwa kukhala house wife.
>>
>> Alice Namathanga, I don't know where she is, competed with me for
>> position 1 in standard 7 at C.I in Blantyre. Next time ndinamva kuti ku
>> secondary school sanapite or she got married. I felt like crying. Why do
>> our girls drop by the way side?
>>
>> We need some sort of conference, commission of inquiry or whatever to
>> look and hardships faced by women from girl child to adult. This will allow
>> for appropriate intervention.
>>
>> Osangoti tizingopanga phokoso without dealing with the underlying issues.
>>
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