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Several years ago, my family went through a hard time. Every family go through it in one way or the other. Ours was so bad because as children we had never really lacked anything or suffer for lack of food and maximum comfort in the home. My parents made sure our needs were well cover. It was so hard that we couldn't eat nice meals whenever we wanted and this we had to cope with. At the time, we had just moved to our own home and my parents had cleared their accounts to make our home a little bit habitable for us. The environment was different, the neighborhood was too hostile(including reptiles). Our house was surrounded by bushes and residential buildings were far away from us. We had to cope somehow. We fell sick one after the other but somehow, we got out of it. On evening, there was no food in the house so Mom went out into the bush to get vegetables she could make into soup but there was not fish or meat to cook it with as usual. While she went out, I and my immediate yo...

In the wider world,gender equality is often narrowed down to the equal placement of a male and a female. Wikipedia puts it this way''Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender".This point of view has been widely spread and its becoming a trend in our world today. In our society today, there is so much clamour for gender equality and the old norm of men solely taking over or leading in every area/sphere of human endeavor is gradually fizzling out. Nowadays, women take lead roles in different sphere and are doing exceptionally well in that regard. This is a laudable achievement for women whose impact overtime has been able to prove beyond every reasonable doubt the saying that"what a man can do,a woman can do b...