Customary Family Law and Gender Discrimination in Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Discrimination is the act of treating things differently.Popularly discrimination is often used to refer to 'unfair' treatment, or treating people differently because of prejudice or irrelevant reasons.Gender discrimination specifically refers to treating men and women differently because of their gender and no other reason. MonogamyA condition or practice during which a person only has or is permitted one mate at any time. PatriarchalA patriarchal society popularly means a society in which men control a disproportionately large share of the power.When used in an anthropological sense patriarchy refers to a social organisation marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the determination of descent and inheritance by the male line. PolygamyA situation in which a person may be married to more than one mate at the same time.It is not a gender specific term -a polygamous realtionship can be one in which a woman has more than one husband or a man has more than one wife.However, polygamy is often popularly used only to refer to a situation of polygyny, which is a situation in which a man can have more than one wife.

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