Women In Botswana

Women in Botswana do not have many rights of life. They are raped daily by their male partners and sometimes passed around to many other men. They are not treated as equals. Women are beaten and abused by their male partners and not respected at all. The average age of life for women is 20 and out of a 1000 female infents 52 of them die.

Women also sometimes have to do a mans work as they call it in their country. They preform manual labor and must proide for their families. Only 55% of the head of the family have some kind of education. The precentage is even lower for the number of women.

Almost 37% of preganat woman in Botswana are infected with HIV, there are about 40,000 births per year. Most of the time this is passed on to the child from the mother. Almost every child in this country has at least one parent infected with HIV if not both.