Zambia Women

1. WOMEN OF ZAMBIA and introduction of me! : ) Women Studies 420 September 5, 2010

3. I achieved my A.A. at Hibbing Community College and am now a full time student at Minnesota State University Moorhead going for my B.A. in Social Work AND Criminal Justice!

7. Earning an education in Zambia has become unaffordable due to education cutbacks. Most families have to choose who to send to school; they usually choose boys because girls may drop out or get married and money spent on educating them will have been 'wasted‘.

8. Caring for the sick is the women’s job in Zambia. Families have to choose which illnesses are serious enough to take to the hospital. A lot of women's and children's diseases are ignored, such as home deliveries, which are sometimes dangerous, have become common again.

10. They are often in danger of contracting AIDS since Zambia has one of the highest incidence of HIV in Africa, but they also are in danger of being beaten up and exploited by unscrupulous men.

11. Often times mothers encourage their children to go and work the streets to feed themselves, but also to help feed the other children at home. AIDS, which may manifest itself in five or ten years time, does not seem much of a threat to a family that is starving now.

13. structural adjustment on women in Zambia. Retrieved from http://warc.ch/pc/rw942/02.html.

14. ŽeljkoHeimer and JaumeOllé. August 03, 1997. Flag of Zambia. Retrieved from http://flagspot.net/flags/zm.html.