Gender inequality in Lango folktales

Abstract

This study analyses the portrayal of men and the contrast that exists between men and women in LANGO folktales. How these men and women go about their day today activities and how these activities make them different from each other. This study was carried out basing on selected Lango folktales where the roles played by men and women are clearly brought out. This research enabled us to know that there is a big difference between men and women in folktales. These differences include superiority verus inferiority whereby men are considered to be superior and women are looked at as inferior people. Men are rude, rough, heartless, protective among others. Women on the other hand are fearful, obedient, determined and weak. This research enables us to know that these differences are brought up according to how the men and women in these folktales behave, associate with each other and also unwritten rules that dictate how men and women behave. Such as men protecting women since they are considered weak, women being obedient to men since they are considered superior and women are considered inferior. This research also analyses the fact that animals too can be grouped as men and women while paying attention to their behavior, interaction with one another and others.