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 Estonia as Rõugutaja. First woman cleric Laine Villenthal was ordinated in 1967 by Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Women in Estonia Women in Estonia are women who were born in, who live in, or are from Estonia in Europe. Estonian women first gained the right to vote from Russia's Provisional Government in 12th of April 1917 together with Estonia being granted a national autonomy as a unified entity. Between 1970 and 1990, the total fertility rate (TFR - the average number of children a woman bears) of Estonian women was little over 2 children born per woman. A fast decrease of the