Women in Benin have gained more rights since the restoration of democracy and the ratification of the Constitution, and the passage of the Personal and Family Code in 2004. These both overrode various traditional customs that systematically treated women unequally. Still, inequality and discrimination persist. "Girls from the age of five or so are actively involved in housekeeping, sibling care, and agriculture."[1] Society could think about of a woman's role are a housemaid, caretaker, or babysitter. A woman's role is to be a housemaker and nothing at all, but women have much potential to be more than a housemaker. With laws taking charge of what a woman can be as a career of how they are being useful more in the house than in a men's job position. Moreover, these rules apply to women by their gender that has not changed for a while. And there has been inequality based on being the opposite gender which these rules should immediately change if the society wants to get better to have equality for the female race.
Women in Benin
A woman in Benin
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)
350 (2010)
Women in parliament
8.4% (2013)
Women over 25 with secondary education
11.2% (2012)
Women in labour force
67.5% (2012)
Gender Inequality Index[2]
Value
0.602(2021)
Rank
152nd out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index[3]
Value
0.612 (2022)
Rank
138th out of 146
Woman on motorcycle
^Benin Women in Culture, Business & Travel : A Profile of Beninese Women in the Fabric of Society. World Trade Press. 2010-01-01. p. 1. ISBN 9781607802860.
^"Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
^"Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
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