Female Supremacy Articles - Page 22

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Men who feel less than others because of poverty experience an even more humiliating position as a man who cannot play protector and provider. As a result, many turn to escape, or to themselves in drinking and gambling cliques in their communities.

Among the poor, young females seek to graduate from high school. Their male counterparts seek to become tricycle drivers even at the cost of dropping out of school – and the majority of them do drop out before the fourth year in high school.

Those who do finish high school aspire to be policemen, soldiers or security guards. The rest end up as construction workers or farm labourers.

On the other hand, their female counterparts seek to be teachers, nurses or white collar项圈 — a band worn around the neck employees. Even from the point of view of dreams and ambitions, women dominate men in all areas except, again, in work that requires physical strength or readiness for violence.

It does not help any that civil society and government are now getting more massively and deeply involved in micro-finance as their primary intervention for poverty alleviation – even if micro-finance is almost totally exclusively for women.

An already dysfunctional setting is being made more so when women who dominate the workplace and are the main providers of families in poverty-stricken communities receive extra opportunities to become more dominant in what used to be traditionally male roles. The gap is not only wide but also widening.