Women’s forced obedience and dependability to men in png: scenario is analogous to domestic slavery

Ever enduring supremacy of tribal chiefs and presumably the patriarchal authority of men over women in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have still been persisting. This persuasive nature of male dominance in all aspects of family lives in PNG got its primordial values indoctrinated to women’s relegation at all times. The Melanesian society sanctioned this unsolicited female domestic slavery usurped for centuries. Global expansionism and consumerist economic exercises in postmodern states could hardly make any impact on the traditional condiments of customary tribal practices in PNG. Although, there are ample instances of women’s’ domestic slavery in many other societies even with the least or absence of inelegant tribal family traits of ‘male dictate’ over the female folks. The extreme form of gender discrimination has been prevailing in PNG incongruent to the usual trend of liberal attitudes towards women in the developed world. This paper attempts to critically appraise the women’s pecuniary as well as sociocultural status in PNG society alongside tribal specificity. This research is determined based on selected ethnographic accounts covering major provinces/regions of PNG. Basic information enduringly associated with PNG women’s extreme forms of compliance to men are collected through intensive interviews utilizing structured and open-ended questions.