The exclusion of women is not something that we in Ghana have inherited. In a greater part of Ghana at least, even those tribal areas that are ‘patrilinealʼ, girls are just like other children. So this business of women canʼt do this or do that is very new somehow. I didnʼt grow up in a home where I was forced to learn how to cook. Maybe my people were too strange. Nobody ever told me not to do anything because I was a girl.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The exclusion of women is not something that we in Ghana have inherited. In a greater part of Ghana at least, even those tribal areas that are ‘patrilinealʼ, girls are just like other children. So this business of women canʼt do this or do that is very new somehow. I didnʼt grow up in a home where I was forced to learn how to cook. Maybe my people were too strange. Nobody ever told me not to do anything because I was a girl." in the context of "https://www.dvv-international.de/en/adult-education-and-development/editions/aed-842017-inclusion-and-diversity/interviews/nobody-could-tell-me-writing-was-a-mans-job/" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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