COVER: When women are pressured into marriage

>“When are you getting engaged?  When is the wedding? Why aren’t you married yet? What are you waiting for?” These are just some of the aggravating questions that society asks women whom they deem should already be married for various reasons, with age topping the list.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: AU head: marriage 'oppresses women'

The BBC speaks to the chair of the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma about women's rights in Africa.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Aug

COVER: The rise of independent and bold women

>She would be told to fill her mouth with water and keep it there whenever her husband attempted to pick a quarrel with her. The reasoning was that this would prevent her from answering back. She was told that a woman is, at all costs, submissive to her husband. That one of her primary roles as a wife was to cook for her husband and family members, all the time.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Jan

COVER: Women seeking men like their fathers

>Ever since she was a child, Florence Ngonyani  38, dreamt  of marrying a man with traits similar to her father’s, and she wouldn’t  hide such a desire.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Nov

COVER: Are men intimidated by successful women?

>Career success of one partner in a relationship doesn’t have to determine the longevity of that relationship.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Oct

COVER: Beware of the cancers that affect women

>You may have lost a relative or friend or may know someone that got cancer. Cancer is a common disease in many societies that has affected most people in one way or another.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Feb

COVER: A safe haven for pregnant women

>Natasha Bhagat has established a rewarding friendship with expectant mothers and hospital staff at Temeke District Hospital; this has happened because of her passionate and caring heart which has seen her build a postnatal ward aimed at caring for mothers and their babies after giving birth.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 May

COVER: Restoring dignity to women with fistula

>Elizabeth Samuli Wankoli sits on her hospital bed while staring at the calendar.She is counting days; few more days as she gets on her feet again and return to Mugumu, to reunite with her family.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Jul

COVER: When biological clock rules lives of women

>Most older women in Tanzania are not aware of what to do when their biological clock starts to rule their life. Now at 26, it appears that Ms Jane Lyimo will automatically fall into that category of women when she clicks 48 or 49 years.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Nov

COVER: Why married women engage in secret investments

>Marcelina Bernard* enjoyed every bit of her three years of marriage with her husband. Theirs seemed like fairy tale version of the happily ever after affair.

 

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