iarjelIARJELIARJEL2708-5120https://doi.org/10.47310/iajel.2021.v02i01.003‘Manised Labourer’, the Travails of Womanhood: Abstract Waste SculptureOkogwuAntoniaDepatmemt of Fine Arts and Design, University of Port Harcourt, NigeriaWomanhood is a term ascribed to being woman and its characteristics and idiosyncrasies. It is a term ascribed to a mature adult of the female gender. In some areas of Africa womanhood is so debased that one wonders if the wrongs of gender inequality and sensibility can ever be redressed. Even after the Beijing conference and the twenty first century, some of these unspeakable abominations are enshrined in the culture that when you raise objections you are quickly labelled a feminist and an anti-cultural person. This issue raises three hypothetical questions: Is being a woman in some regions of the world synonymous with marginalization, in which way can a woman vividly portray what she feels as a person irrespective of her gender and can a three dimensional art aptly capture the travails of womanhood. Anchoring on the theoretical frame of Karl Marx conflict theory and methodologically adopting the qualitative mode of enquiry and sculpture studio research methods of welding, modelling, dicing piecing stringing and wrapping. Manised labourer placed in a strategically place sent out direct messages to the onlooker to pensively review without haggling of words the travails of women in the society.