Dating an ivory coast woman

53.1% of males can read and write and only 32.5% of females can read and write.

According to CIA World Factbook, the literacy rate in Ivory Coast in total is 43.1%.

It also states that the school life expectancy for males is ten years, whereas for girls it’s eight years.

So far, no specific organizations have helped women education in Ivory Coast.

Polygamy, practiced among most Mande peoples since pre-Islamic days, was codified under Islam, which offered both protections and disadvantages.

In Mande Muslim communities, the first wife has authority over any subsequent wives, sharing domestic work, and caring for the extended family, into which the wives' parents may be folded into the husbands family.