SheResonance

  Image credit: OtownGist. The crux of this problem. Started with the fact that women have no identity of their own. At birth, they are their fathers, at marriage, they are their sons, at their husband's death, they are their sons.  For a person who is never her own being but owned by others, it only makes sense that property cannot own a property. Which is why our approach to addressing these issue must address it at the root cause.  Recently, the news broke out that The late elder statesman and former Ohanaeze Ndigbo President -General, Chief (Engr. Dr. ) Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has left behind a final Will that 'bans his wife, Lolo Frances from remarrying'. Apparently, if she chooses to remarry, she stands to forfeit the properties inherited.  This news coincided with the presently trending shocking story of Ifunanya , a girl who could not reach her father for six months, suspecting something was wrong, came back to her village to find out that her aunt's and uncles...

  Image credit: Blue Origin "what did they do up there that would benefit women and girls down here?" - Olivia Munn. In a world where women are expected to cater to the community- be a mother, assume wifely duties and be a role model, living for oneself is rebellion. Women, especially women in the limelight are expected to live for the community. The role of a role model is hoisted upon us and we are supposed to use that as a mental restraint. When next we want to choose a meal to eat, a clothe to wear, a party to go to, we must remember the imaginary eyes right there with us in the bedroom and and ask ourselves "what will the community want" before making a choice. On April 14th 2025, The recent case of the all women crew involving Kerianne Flynn; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA engineer, Lauren Sanchez, singer-songwriter Katy Perry and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King that went to space bussed and spinned many headlines. Olivia Munn who described the trip as gluttonous a...

Very recently, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has this to say about the Senate President of Nigeria Akpabio  (as reported by Business Day ): “I’ll have a motion to pass and he’ll not let me. My husband would walk to him because they are friends and say ‘My wife has a very important bill, her constituency needs this, why don’t you give her a chance to speak?’ And he’ll say ‘next time’. “Each time I walk to him alone, he’ll tell me, ‘You know what, right here, I’m the chief presiding officer of the national assembly, so you have to please me, make me happy to get these privileges..." So what then is QUID PRO QUO SEXUAL HARASSMENT??? Quid pro quo is Latin word for something for something (an exchange). Of all of the varying types of sexual harassment, QUID pro quo Harassment has not received the deserved outrage because it has, for centuries, been wrongly categorised as transactional sex, workplace romance, choice and what have you. This is NOT TRANSACTIONAL SEX, rather, it is a situat...