[unclear: Ects] of Colonial Domination

[unclear: ritrean] society is semi-feudal and [unclear: nial]. The Eritrean masses have been [unclear: oited] for centuries under the feudal [unclear: le] of production and by foreign capital, [unclear: ddition], women in Eritrea have been [unclear: mised] by the existing patriarchal order.

[unclear: rural] Eritrea, excluded from the [unclear: ership] of production they live a life of [unclear: breaking] toil on farm plots and in the [unclear: e]. In the cities they have been ruthlessly [unclear: oited] as part of the working class, paid [unclear: than] half of men's wages and forced to [unclear: k] long hours under terrible conditions [unclear: i] no rights. Poor working conditions [unclear: e] not improved for women, nor for all [unclear: kers] under successive colonial regimes British, Italian and Ethiopian, firstly [unclear: ked] by the US and now by the Soviets.

[unclear: lany] women are forced into prostitu[unclear: or] the drudgery of private domestic [unclear: ery] toiling up to 15-18 hours a day for [unclear: ttle] as $3.00 a month wages.