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We need to challenge stereotypes and stop portraying the victim as “asking for it” or deserving of abuse. Abuse is a choice made by the perpetrator, and no one can provoke someone into being abusive. Community support also goes a long way in re-education and challenging gender stereotypes and harmful norms that make women and girls second-class citizens of their communities. The burden is not on men to carry the weight of the world like superhumans, thereby portraying women and girls as the weaker gender, even with the amount of paid and unpaid labour they are involved with. “What we may actually need in Nigeria is equity and not equality, “Equality” is associated with the concept of levelling the playing field, and “equity” states that more resources must be provided to those who need them due to historical and modern oppression. The term “equity” allows for the examination of solutions that are intersectional and that work to address the imbalance of privilege that exists in our society.”
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November 2023 | Collective Action Magazine
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