As a teenager, I have had my fair share of gender inequality. In classrooms, a boy is automatically the class captain while girls are always assistants. I didn’t quite understand why that is so until I became an adult and realised that gender inequality has eaten deep into our existence, especially in a patriarchal society like Nigeria.
Even though I have always believed that women deserve the same chances as men whether it’s in school, in business, or in politics, growing up in Nigeria, I realised that what we deserve isn’t always what we get. Gender inequality in Nigeria is not just something we hear about on the news or in international reports; it’s something many of us live with every single day. Women are told to wait their turn, to tone it down, to stay in the background and somehow, we’re expected to succeed in a system that was never built for us.
This was what pushed me to take on this documentary project, Unseen and Undervalued. Somehow, we’re expected to succeed in a system that was never built for us.
