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Gender Inequality In Haitian Culture

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It is impossible to discuss gender and the influences it has on one livelihood without acknowledging the other aspects of one’s identity. Other aspects such as race, class, and sexuality in combination with will always play a major role in one’s life choices and the way they are perceived by others. The term intersectionality as stated by Susanne Hochreiter offers a way to understand the multiple grounds of identity when considering how the social world is constructed. Intersectionality explains why gender cannot be in isolation from other inequalities in the social world. As a black Haitian woman raised in America, it is clear to see that my identity occupies several spheres. The experiences of being a woman in Haitian culture often conflicts with that in of American culture. In Haitian, there are specific roles and social spaces that women occupy. Traditionally in Haitian culture women are the head of the household but still place their husband’s authority above them. Young Haitian girls must learn many things before they are considered young women in their society. These …show more content…

I would watch my mom or any woman of the house fetch a machann to buy everything needed for a breakfast meal or for the house. Being a woman from a middle-class Haitian family I’ve always known that I would not have to be a street vendor but I always found myself imitating these women. As a young girl, I would play machann and walk around the house with a basket on my head yelling out the goods that I offered to sell just like a machann would. Therefore, when picturing my womanhood through an image I decided to look for an image of a machann. The image is that of a young Haitian woman who appears to be a machann or a young woman attending to out household chores while carrying a pot on her

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