Women in Benin have gained more rights since the restoration of democracy and the ratification of the Constitution, and the passage of the Personal and Family Code in 2004.

And there has been inequality based on being the opposite gender which these rules should immediately change if the society wants to get better to have equality for the female race.Female genital mutilation has been described as “the worst substantial human rights violation in Benin.”[4] About 13 percent of women and girls have been subjected to it (over 70 percent in some regions and tribes), but the law against it is rarely enforced.

Women and girls from Benin are struggling to find an opportunity to be an individual and not being a non existing human being.

And, one of the disadvantages of being a woman in Benin is lack of individualism which being themselves is against their cultural traditions based on the gender roles they have set up as how women should appropriately behave around in their society.

Still, they experience a great deal of social and employment discrimination owing to traditional attitudes about sex roles,[6] and have a much harder time obtaining credit and when widowed do not have the right to manage their own property.

[7] Women in rural areas play subordinate roles and do a great deal of hard labor.

[6] A 2012 U.S. report commended Benin for establishing the National Council for the Promotion of Gender Equity and Equality.

[10] A 2012 U.S. report commended Benin for establishing the National Council for the Promotion of Gender Equity and Equality.

Some aspects of life that it helps are gaining respect, being able to raise a family comfortably, and achieving their own goals for themselves.