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It doesn’t take long to observe that the community of Awra Amba is unlike any other place in Ethiopia — or even the rest of the world.
Here in the breathtaking highlands of northern Ethiopia, not far from the fresh waters of Lake Tana, the largest in the east African nation, an important societal experiment has been underway for the last half century.
Across the lush terrain, women guide oxen to plough the fields. Men sit in their humble adobe homes, sometimes tending to babies or spinning cotton. Here, the gender equality of labor is both the law as well as, seemingly, the genuine reality.
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