We all know that as women, we must work twice as hard as
men. In fact, in America, as a black woman, you are in most cases, the bottom
of the food chain. You have got the White male, White female, Black male and
then the Black female. You basically have to work 4 times harder than your
colleagues/peers. In Nigeria, we don’t have white people, we are mostly of the
same color but we have different tribes. However, we won’t get into the tribe thing.
My focus here is on the issue of gender.
One will argue that as a woman in Nigeria, you have to work
4 times harder than men in order to be taken seriously. Half seriously even.
You almost have to transform into a monster. Now, I can’t speak much of the
private sector because I have done little research in that space (even though, I’ll
imagine there is little to no difference), my focus is mostly on the public
sector. I have aunties who are leaders in 2 different government employment spaces
and their experience in the work place pisses me off a great deal.
