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In the 21st Century, women should not be judged based on marital status

It’s the 21st century and women still have to contend with the question of marriage and childbirth.

We have been conditioned to think that a woman cannot be complete without a man and marriage is the trophy women get when they have been good. So, while women can train to be anything, there is this parallel course they are expected to attend concurrently, the one on being good wife material. These qualities of being a good wife as perpetrated by both men and women alike include all forms of servitude and submissiveness.

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