International Women's Day In Uganda: If A Man Cooks For You, That's ... Progress
Today is Agnes Igoye's birthday, and she spent it mentoring high schools girls in Kampala, Uganda, in honor of International Women's Day. Igoye serves as Uganda's deputy National Coordinator for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons and heads its Immigration Training Academy. She spoke to me over the phone from her friend's house in Kampala.
What kind of day is International Women's Day in Uganda?
Today is a public holiday. People are happy they aren't going to work. Men cook and clean for us. But it's not just cleaning and cooking. Women are highlighted in television programming, in newspapers and in public life.
Sometimes women get flowers and women say So seeing conversations about putting women in leadership roles, even if the conversations are
