What happened to the emacipation of women?

I was listening to the radio on my way to work one morning. As usual it was tuned in to the classic 105 morning show with Maina Kageni and Mwalimu King’angi as the hosts. They usually have very interesting topics on marriage and relationships in general, on this particular day the topic was why women expect their money back once they lend to their husbands considering the fact that they are married and as such are considered as one. The call that stood out to me was a lady who called in, told us that she has been married for the last 15 years. Apparently for the duration of this time the husband has never bought a single thing for her or her children.

He has also never paid school fees, he’s never paid the rent, basically the lady takes care of all the expenses in the house.As if this were'nt enough,she bought a house and a car without this mans help.Now the astonishing bit to me is the fact that she proceeded to register them in her husbands name!!???what the hell?she bought all these things with her hard earned money! To quote her she said”being the African woman I am,I registered my property in my husbands name.’How ridiculous can one get?!Note the fact that this man is also working,he’s not ati lame or a cripple or anything.Then it hit me this is actually reversed roles,men,(kikuyu men)especially have been doing this for ages.Maybe this is the bad side of the emancipation of women,the total and complete reversal of roles!