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         ARE WOMEN COMMODITY?
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Marketing theory has been discussed over years. Many theorists had tried to explain marketing thought since it was a separate field apart from economics ,Since ancient times, people who are being sold just like a mere things sold in a market to be slaves, pimp, and it is quiet alarming that even naive child is a victim of this kind of discursive life.



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Women have been also analyzed to be part of those bundles of things paraded, bidded for, sold and traded off despite the fact that women are making huge contributions for the development of their countries in different aspects, today  still women are being tricked as commodity. A commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of the same type. Commodities are used as inputs in the production of other goods or services. There are different commodities that are used such as sugar, gas, oil ,wheat ,diamonds, gold, corn, copper.

How we see women is not the same as how our grandfathers see women. They saw them as delicate creatures who could be a source of happiness, love, and, most importantly, children, but modern men are stuck with a different breed of women who care less about intimate relations and creating families than pursuing money,  being trendy consumers, and satisfying their hedonistic needs. Numerous social historians of the early modern period have documented the value attached to daughters as a means by which to advance family name and social position. Although marriage formations differed widely according to social ranking.  Law and Marriage, “the convention among the gentry and aristocracy was for marriages to be arranged by families with a view to securing advantage. Women and girls are being trafficked for exploitation: forced into domestic labor, prostitution or marriage. They live in fear, many become victims of violence. Their blood, sweat and tears are on the hands of consumers in the developed world.



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Human Trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as "the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation.

Trafficking victims have become another commodity in a larger realm of criminal commerce involving other commodities. Prostitution is commonly defined as the custom of having sexual relations in exchange for economic gain. Although the sex is traditionally traded for money, it can also be bartered for jewelry, clothing, vehicles, housing, food anything that has market value.



It all goes back to the status of women. We must not treat women and girls as commodities. They are human beings with rights and privileges. Let’s put women's empowerment stage in efforts to address population growth and sustainable development.
By Atta George Peprah.

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