Distinguished Women of the Jamaican Society.

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Topic: Females’ achievement the Jamaican society Women in most parts of the world, traditionally, have always been looked down on as inferior, weak, and their inputs have never been taken seriously in major decision making of any sort. It was once said that women are to be seen and not heard. House work and raising children was the job that most societies in the world described as being more suitable for a woman and any man venturing to do so was considered feminine. The United Nations development Program Jamaica (UNDP), research has shown that six out of ten of the world's poorest people are women and girls, less than 16 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women, and both in times of armed conflict and behind closed doors at home, women are still systematically subjected to violence. According to the UNDP, In Jamaica, more women than men live in poverty; far more women are unemployed, despite their educational gains. They have identified Gender as a cross-cutting issue in all aspects of social and economic life in Jamaica. Women have made considerable progress in Jamaica as males have fallen behind in the education and health systems and are more susceptible to violence. Females out-perform males at every level of the educational system, in spite of this, their superior qualifications are not reflected in the labour market, where males have lower unemployment rates, earn higher wages and occupy higher professional and managerial levels. Despite all this, women have evolved into not only caretakers of the home, but care takers of the world that we live in today. The following are just a few women who we recognize in the Jamaican History as major contributors of the whole development of the country. Nanny of the Maroons “Queen” Nanny is presumed to have been born around the 1680’s in Ghana. She was reported to belong to either the Ashanti or Akan tribe and
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