Isabela Nchimbi, TAWLA advocate made the call at the weekend here speaking during the commemoration of the International Women’s Day.
Nchimbi said a number of women have been forgetting their roles when claiming for their rights, something which raises conflicts in families.
“Due to the on-going campaigns to fight for equality in the society, some women have started to misuse education by claiming rights which in reality are not theirs,” she warned.
According to her, there are some roles which basically need to be played by women and there is no way the group can evade them.
The lawyer advised that more education should continue to be given to women so that they can seek justice in a good way that does not cause conflicts in the family.
“After being empowered of their rights, some of us (women) return home, we leave our basic responsibilities under the pretext of justice, it is true that we are campaigning for equality but we need to be careful how we deserve it,” Nchimbi said.
Mpunguzi ward councillor, Innocent Nyambuya acknowledged that they have been receiving a lot of complaints on women forgetting their roles in families thus causing conflicts.
According to him, it seems that the word equality is wrongly translated by some women who have sometimes been leaving their key responsibilities to their husbands in the name of equality.
“The 50/50 campaign has advantages but also its adverse impacts, as some women are now competing with their husbands at home, dividing roles even those should be done by men, this isn’t right and causes a lot of conflicts,” she explained.
Rehema Wami, resident at Mpunguzi ward said women in rural areas were still deprived of their rights and many of them do not know how to claim them.
She said that during the harvesting period, men have been taking the lead in auctions writing their names to receive the payments which truly their wives are required to receive because they are the ones who work hard in farms.
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