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Title:A new class of professional Zairian women
Author:Gould, T.F.
Year:1977
Periodical:The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:7
Issue:3-4
Pages:92-105
Language:English
Geographic term:Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:women workers
women
Abstract:Belgian colonization, through its concerted efforts to serve its own capitalistic interest, created in Zaire not only class problems, but ethnic problems as well. Young Zairians who manage to get to the university, women as wall as men, happen to be members of ethnic groups who have had a 'head start' due to the social and economic policies pursued by the Belgians. It is in this context of a neocolonialist class systea, tinged by ethnicity, that this article examines women and development in Zaire. First it examines her situation in pre-colonial society and in colonial society. Ref.
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