Tu sais, ces belles guerres que l’OTAN mène pour défendre les droits des femmes et les libérer de l’oppression du paternalisme à grand coups de bombardements massifs ? Hé ben en fait maintenant c’est ce que fait l’Arabie séoudite au Yémen : ils sont en train d’y promouvoir les droits des femmes… An unexpected result of Yemen’s war : More men are cooking and cleaning
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/an-unexpected-result-of-yemens-war-more-men-are-cooking-and-cleaning/2016/12/09/7dcaf69d-642d-4fd4-8e74-44e189cb778b_story.html
The women in this village never earned money, never left home without the permission of their husbands. It had been that way for as long as anyone could remember.
Then the war arrived.
Now before dawn each day, mothers and daughters walk to the mountainous scrub to gather wood, which they turn into charcoal and sell. The men stay home and care for the children, and sometimes do the cooking and the cleaning.
“I feel the war has changed my personality,” said Ayde Ahmed Shabon, 33, her voice soft but clear. “I feel equal to the man now.”