How long does it take to peg out a load of clothes, having washed them by hand, in the early morning with a wondering promise of sun but with visible dark clouds in the horizon, onto a hang line? How many hours of a woman’s day are swallowed up in washing, cooking, cleaning, getting children ready for school, collecting them, scrubbing and scouring grease off pans, digging and harvesting? Maybe as many as she can spare, but most time every day. And she has night duties to keep in mind. She must not forget those or fights break out. For if he might appreciate her sacrifice of time and dreams…
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Far From the Madding Crowd
‘Will you marry me? I can provide for you, I have sheep that can pay off the land and you can settle here in this beautiful country. You can get a piano in the house. I can make you happy.’ – Mr. Gabriel Oak, Far from the Madding Crowd. I was watching this movie(Far from the Madding Crowd) a few days ago, after failing to find the book and something in it struck me. Men, in a time long gone as shown in the movie, used to marry women because they could provide for them, the men were hard workers. A man with work was looked at as a responsible…
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Part 2: Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
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Men Look For Business & Love While Women Seek Games & Knowledge On #SocialMedia
A new infographic has been published by Finances Online regarding the things we look for on social media and segmented them between genders. We all know why we are on social, why we engage with it the way we do, but do you know that we differ in the way we use it and what we look for when we are there. Alex Hillsberg and David Adelman say that men are more likely to use social media for business and dating, while women look for relationships, sharing, entertainment, and self-help. Also you remember my blog about Mobile adverts, this infographic says that women ignore paid advertising more often than men, but this topic I will…
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Infographic: Women Dominate Every Social Media Network Except One
According to data compiled in the infographic below by Alex Hillsberg at the personal finance website FinancesOnline.com it look us ladies use social media alot more than men. To me this is not a surprise, we have a lot to say and share, plus we are more than men via population levels. But we are not doing well with one platform which is actually more important than the others, LinkedIn. This infographic says we are at 19% while the men at 24% in using this professional site. It is kinda embarrassing because we have more women human resource managers than men. If we improve our engagement with that platform, we will be dominate…
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Family Planning Must Address Social Barriers
As the President of Uganda Mr. Yoweri Museveni and his wife are preparing to test for HIV/AIDS today, there is a larger set of issues that need to be looked at to promote better family planning policies in this country. These issues include giving girls and women the same opportunities as men to improve access to family planning methods and policies to fight against HIV/AIDS. The President and his wife in this joint action to get tested portray that gender equality is important in ensuring women have improved access to family planning services and information. Family planning can provide economic benefits to women and communities thus men should continue to create…
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Promote Gender Equality, Empower Women At Workplaces
Happily, the principle that women should be empowered at work enjoys near universal support. Promoting gender is not only about promoting women per se but is also about closing inequalities, reducing gaps, and redistributing roles in general. Seeking equal opportunities for both men and women should be part of the conditions which offer potential for everyone in their respective workplaces to contribute to both society and the economy. I believe that gender equality is good for economies and vital for the companies and organisations within them. Only when gender equality is assured can economies make use of all of society’s potential talent as well as encourage the innovations that creates…
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Types of men you shouldn't be dating.
Am re-posting this but edited, from my Facebook notes after i promised a friend of mine, a one @Jwaninda that am to post it on Monday after @beewol had taken over the morning. I had forgotten and he sent me a tweet to remind me; I thought I would wake up to @pkahill ‘s blog mbu of 25 types of men you shouldn’t date, but narra or did I just miss it — Joseph Waninda (@JWaninda) September 16, 2013 But i don’t have 25, i only have 18 types and here there are; 1) Mammy’s boys He probably stays with his mother who does most of his things. She cooks for…
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For Ladies; Lies are lies, stop sugarcoating them
“When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him. Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:…
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Type of women, men should be dating
There are several women in the world, that the options are possibly limitless for dating; now this is going to sound crazy for a lady to write about her fellow woman in this manner but i had to… So here we go: 1.) The Older Woman. Now, when I say this, I’m not saying you have to date someone’s grandmother. I’m saying that a woman who is about 3-5 years older than you, who has most likely gone through the era of your life that you are experiencing right now. They know more, and are more…experienced in several matters. Fredrick said when I was 17, I dated a 23 year…
