Women in Ivory Coast ethnic background and historical circumstance. It has been argued that Ivorian cultures largely had a cultural bias against equality between the sexes, embodied in customary law and codified in the colonial period. But this view has been challenged by Ivorian writers, who argue that in many pre-colonial societies, women held political and /or economic power equal to many men. Looking specifically at the "N'Gongbo" Baoulé people, one writer contrasts Ivorian women's roles the traditional Western tradition where the public and the private spheres are separated, with the superior public sphere reserved for men, and argues that Western intellectuals transpose this
Women in agriculture in Afghanistan they tell me, 'Go and send a man from your family because you are a woman.'" Women in agriculture in Afghanistan Women's roles in agriculture in Afghanistan have been shaped by the cultural and religious landscape of the country. Women comprise nearly half of the farming and agricultural workforce in Afghanistan. In recent years, women have been contributing to farm work and been earning money or barter goods for their contributions. Traditionally, men dominated farming in Afghanistan and while women were occasionally used to help work fields or tend livestock, they did not receive any monetary benefit from their work.