Another horrifying observations on mass rapes in Congo by a photographer Marcus Bleadsdale. The author mentions the role of women in a Congolese society. Women tend to make 95% of work, which is important to the community: raising children, educating them, planticg, harvesting etc.
Raped women often loose their social position and become excluded from their communities.
The whole situation makes me think about the gender division of labour.What is the role of the male in the Congolese rural society? I don´t really understad it. It seems to have a strong link to the situation in rural Russia where the male population is de facto not participating on the social life beacuse of mass alcoholosm. The women there also tend to be major force due to the village subsitence economy.
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