Social Media Movement Tackles Gender Inequality in Nigeria: #HumanBeforeWoman #HumanBeforeMan

Have you ever been discriminated against because of your gender?

A Nigerian woman, “Lady B” (@KBUdeogu), recently took to Twitter to share her experience with gender discrimination, and it got people talking.

Here is what she said:

A man hit my car on my way to work and told me that as a woman I don’t understand what happened,he’d like to speak to my husband and explain

— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) September 18, 2015

I’m looking at the dude like, tf? I’m not wearing a wedding ring and even if I was, you hit my car not my husband’s car!

— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) September 18, 2015

And the man refused to talk to me, kept saying “you’re a woman you won’t understand, let talk to your husband and explain to him”

— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) September 18, 2015

And all the men around agreed with him, said I should give him my husband’s number so they’d sort it out man to man.

— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) September 18, 2015

And all the men around agreed with him, said I should give him my husband’s number so they’d sort it out man to man.

— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) September 18, 2015

Other people on Twitter proceeded to tell their own stories of discrimination:

This subsequently sparked the hashtags #humanbeforewoman and #humanbeforeman with people speaking out against gender inequality:

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