Women chuckle, or ruefully shake their heads and declare, 'Men are like children. Men are little. The things of women are important. Men are indeed worthless. Women are indeed God.
Men are nothing.
This is given as a rationale for keeping women at home, on the farm, and out of positions of public decision-making. A woman has farm work. These statements are not as contradictory as they first appear. Access to power through control over symbolic and material resources is different for men and women both individually and as a group. The field of power in Nso' is gendered.