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How to handle gender-based exclusion from cultural leadership

I know more about our traditional ways than my older brother but he will inherit the leadership role because he is male and I am struggling with the unfairness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional gender hierarchies can feel particularly painful when competence and calling clearly point in directions that culture does not allow.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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