33 Countries of Origin’ Profiles

Ivory Coast in addition to the role of the main tribe in the villages. Religious roles, from shamans to Catholic priests to Muslim imams, are dominated by men. Government policy encourages full participation by women in business, but generally there is a bias among employers to hiring women, whom they consider less dependable because of their potential pregnancy, so the woman remains marginalized and deprived of basic social servic Women are underrepresented in most professions and in the managerial sector as a whole. Some women also encounter difficulty in obtaining loans, as they cannot meet the lending criteria mandated by banks, including title to a house and production of profitable cash crops, specifically coffee and cocoa. However, women are paid on an equal scale with men in the formal business sector. Men continue to dominate managerial positions and enjoy the most career mobility, usually due to a higher level of education and connections with other businessmen. The general level of schooling in Côte d’Ivoire is very low, especially for girls: in the northern areas of the country, under the influence of tradition, the population remains reluctant to educate girls, who are often responsible for domestic tasks The social organization of Akan is basically built around the "matriclan", the matriarchal clan, where their identity, inheritance, health and politics are determined. All founders are women, but men generally have positions of leadership within society, based on their relationship through their mothers and sisters . It is expected that man will not only keep his family but also his relatives. Also Senufo people belong to their mother's family group, power and land are passed down through a mother's family line to her sister's sons. In the Baoule village, the women live with their husbands' families while among the Senufo, husbands and wives stay in different places with men living in rectangular houses and their wives occupying round ones. When girls get married and leave home, it is the responsibility of the sons to care for the elders of the household. Mandè have a patrilineal kinship system and patriarchal society such as the Bété group, although monogamy is now widespread. Despite there a Law allowing women greater control of their property, in most traditional societies, as the Bete and Juula groups, inheritance is passed down to the through the father's line to the sons, women do not have the right to inherit land but only to use that of their husbands or families, Among the Kru and other peoples of the south-western forest zone, dwellings are clustered around a central open area. Women do most of the daily work, both at home and in the fields, where they grow such crops as yams corn (maize), cassava ( manioc), and peanuts (groundnuts). The men are responsible for hunting, gathering kola nuts and oil palm nuts, and fishing. 16 GBV: . Côte d’Ivoire has ratified the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, as well the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 17 . 16 http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/20.htm 17 https ://ww w.genderindex.org/country/cote-divoire/