Kosovo women’s struggle between family and career
The oppressive trade-off, seen through Simone de Beauvoir’s lens.
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We like to think that the old times of “giving a woman away” are over, but we are yet again faced with other forms of oppression.
Inferiority comes as a result of how you’re treated, it is not predated.
What if a woman decides to live on her own, simply because she wishes so?
Blerta Sejdija
Blerta Sejdija is a Political Science and Albanology student at Charles University in Prague. She was born and raised in the Czech Republic, but is of Kosovar Albanian background. She is a human rights activist specializing in women’s rights and founded her own NGO, “Beat Sexism,” at the age of 16.
This story was originally written in English.