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Women Empowerment: A Philosophical Appraisal
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A) Culture
Culturally speaking, women have been
discriminated against. Men are considered naturally more analytic,
aggressive and interested in success while women are considered as
nurturing, compassionate better at child bearing and care worse at
exciting decision making. In our culture women are treated as the second
sex. Men behave as if they are the subjects, treating women as the
objects, thus disproving them of the responsibility for their own life
for example the T.V cultural in Nigeria permits men to offer their
wives as entertains to their visitors. According to Dobkin “natural
derived women choice and make them to attend the interest of others,
husbands, parents and lads in place of their ownâ€.4 culture demands
women to marry on time, otherwise, she would find it hard to get
married at a later data. I came to a conclusion that culturally or
otherwise girls are considered as milk once split, it cannot be picked
up. They are not expected to choose their mate. Culturally women are
considered desirably by men or sex and child bearing.
B) Religion
Most religions either directly or indirectly discriminates against
women or support their discrimination. Christianity and some other
religions believe that women should be submissive to men. In Gen 3:16b 1
quote “----- and they desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall over
theeâ€.5 women are excluded from the position of priesthood in the
Christendom, as well as the Muslims. Women are more in number yet most
discriminated against. In water town church Rev. D. Timothy Labouf
dismissed Mary Lambert as a Sunday school teacher for an adult class
after she’s been on the job for over 50 years, making reference to
2timothy 2:11 and 12.
Women are expected to learn in
quietness and full submission. Woman are not expected to each or have
authority over a man, she must be silent. According to Aristotle women
are unfinished men.
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