The part of argan tree is more isolated and impacted in mountains.
Women in this part are very dependant of men because they take every decision (for economy, work, house, children…). Men have a monopoly, and control everything there: women’s work incomes…
And yet, these women working in agriculture account for the main labour force and are not paid for this work because, it’s considered like an extension of domestic work. Women contribute to farming and stockbreeding uppermost to men, and with rudimentary conditions.
These inequalities are very bad for the argan tree society. In fact, they create unevenness in the society because of the superiority of men discriminate women and children. The impact on the society is a bad life for women and children, a women illiteracy rate exalted, and a paucity of equipment and infrastructure (safe water, electricity, hearth…).
Moreover there is a restricted access to resources, which do not facilitate the development of the place.
To ameliorate every living day of the women, they need to access to sanitation, safe water, education, energies and resources like farmland, income…
For that, some women have created the women’s cooperatives. These women have generally a special position: divorced or widows for example. But these cooperatives point out an attitude of change of women, who look for self-sufficiency.
These cooperatives will enable the women to get organized without any dependence of men. These women with a special position could work and gain a social status dignified, and ameliorate their standard of living. These cooperatives could spread over all women, and enable women a financial autonomy and an economic power, and a restriction of their discrimination.
Indeed, with an income, the women can improve their standard of living (with safe water, electricity, a better adult literacy rate…), send their children to school, have more responsibilities, and be independent…
These cooperatives could change men’s behaviour, allow evolving traditions…
At last, these cooperatives make possible a modernisation of agriculture, and a possibility to ameliorate the argan oil marketing.
The argan culture offers to women the emancipation’s possibility, and an area of development.
