ABSTRACT
Women in the rural margins of Zimbabwe also perform many trip generating chores. Certain traditions and societal attitudes in African culture have contributed significantly to marginalization of women in the rural margins of Africa. But even more limiting to women’s progress in Africa was colonial marginalization of rural life in general. The systemic spatial marginalization of the Africans in Zimbabwe was partly based on the colonial logic of creating cheap labour pools that could not be sufficiently occupied in the communal lands. The majority of women in Africa live in rural areas where they experience many problems which adversely affect their quality of life. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there are many ways in which women can face both contingent and marginality. The sources of contingent marginality for most women in SSA are found in the culturally determined division of labour within households.
