“She will get married and learn to be beaten”

I feel contradictory emotions when talking to a lot of women from the regions and when after hearing their personal stories, I’m walking in the same villages. I walk  and see how women are engaged in agriculture under the sun’s burning rays,  the  work is not valued and does not ensure  normal income, I see a teenage girl who carries a heavy weight of the bags alone, and the grandmother is, unpleased, and then they say, ‘My granddaughter  will get married and know that she will be beaten, each of us was beaten.

Then I see a fifty-year-old woman who, despite vertebral disease, bent over a case of doing under his father-in-law’s supervision, who has walked a king-like, in no way helping, and forbids a woman to communicate with people and to step outside, woman is even afraid of taking a booklet. She does not want to have problems. Needless to say, the woman’s husband is away at work here, almost all husbands are abroad, at the same time do not forget to distantly control, give orders that prohibit women  do this or that.

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