Beside this, men inspire us to go forward, fight to liberate women and participate in the People's War. Sunsara, revolutionary woman in a guerrilla zone in Nepal Sunsara was one of the many revolutionary women I met when I traveled to Nepal in 1999. Everywhere I went, I saw and heard how women's anger and enthusiasm is fueling this struggle. And the more I learned about the lives of women in Nepal, the more I understood why, from the very beginning, women's participation in this insurgency has been a mighty and growing force. Peasants on tiny plots of land live on the edge of deepening poverty, debt and hunger.
Women are doubly oppressed.
The reality behind this saying is that women in Nepal are among the most oppressed on the planet. Feudal tradition and patriarchy subject the women to a life of servitude to fathers, husbands and sons. They have no right to inherit land. A peasant woman may get up at 4 a.m. and not see the end of her day for 18 hours. Her life expectancy is only 52 years.