Generations of Women Sustain Kelantan's Famed Siti Khadijah Market

Generations of women sustain Kelantan's famed Siti Khadijah Market

Women make up more than 90 per cent of traders at Siti Khadijah Market, one of Kelantan’s best-known attractions.

Generations of women sustain Kelantan’s famed Siti Khadijah Market

LONG HISTORY OF WOMEN IN TRADEAccording to Kelantan Entrepreneurship Development sector head Junaidah Ab Aziz, the prominence of women in trade has deep historical roots.In earlier generations, she said, Kelantanese men often spent long periods away from home working in agriculture, collecting wood or fishing, sometimes spending weeks at sea.As a result, women took on…