Actress Kate Henshaw has voiced her opposition to the ongoing inequalities that women experience, denouncing both societal norms and legal structures that perpetuate gender bias.
Kate Henshaw made the case that women were formed as equals to men, not as inferiors, citing the biblical creation myth.
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She bemoaned how long-standing gender inequality has been exacerbated by the distortion of this premise by cultural and legal standards.
Kate Henshaw mentioned some Nigerian laws that, in her opinion, institutionalise inequality, such as citizenship clauses that give preference to foreign women married to Nigerian men while denying foreign men married to Nigerian women the same privileges.
She said, “God created man and woman. He created the man first, no doubt. Even pastors and churches are at fault for this. He (God) brought the woman from the side, not from the head over the man or from under to be beneath him but beside, to reign beside him, to be fruitful, multiply and bring up children and grow together but Nigerian men see women as less than human that is why when you leave these shores and go somewhere else, they show you people pepper.
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“You see us as this wood…even our laws, the violence against persons’ prohibition laws favour the man…A man is reasonably allowed to chastise his wife”.
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