Last week in Kampala, while listening to Radio One FM 90’s Great Morning He/She, I caught part of a conversation in which a woman seemed to be struggling with her husband and in-laws over building a wall around a family home. I missed the beginning of the story, so I cannot claim to have grasped all the details. From the snippets I caught during the advice session, however, the woman appeared to be an engineer who offered technical advice on the construction, but whose input seemed to be disregarded. There also seemed to be an expectation that she would contribute financially to the project. What struck me was the possibility that a woman could be expected to contribute to a family project while having her professional knowledge and expertise disregarded in the decisions surrounding it. I may not have captured the full story, but that fragment and the advice from different callers were enough to get me thinking. Some listeners advised the woman to stay out of her husband’s family issue...
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