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Women Empowerment: A Philosophical Appraisal
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c) Political
Women have skill,
potentials, intelligent, brilliant, smart but why is t that up till now
they are not fully given, if at all, women are expected to go to minor
position and not major ones like the position of president and the
vice-president. They are seen as inferior to men and regarded as second
class citizen and should be subordinate to men. They should nor seek for
tops in political level because they would not even be considered. They
are alleged that thus has to do with patriarchal hierarchies in
society. Politically women are sublime in budgetary consideration and
participation in matters of self interest.
In united states
of American, only three women have served as their governors. And in
Nigeria a women was made Governor for three months. None has become the
presidents or the vice- president. They are excluded to some extent from
political offices.
D) Economic
Most women are now
educated not like the ancient times where women were not regarded as
people who should be educated. But skill educated women are advised and
convinced to stay in their place because they are expected to work in
women’s jobs and one wonders if really men and women always do different
works. But what causes job segregation today? Is it that women are not
seen as men capable in doing the jobs regarded as men’s job?.
At working place, women are sexually harassed. An organization arose to
fight against all forms of discriminating acts, with the aim to
liberate women from the stereotyped roles which they have been wicked
into and prevents their development for example the CEDAW (convention on
the elimination of all forms of disc rumination against women.
Economically women are poor; through women have also contributed
indirectly to increase in productivity and long run economic growth
through unpaid work, both at home raising children and in their
communities. Women are not given greater economic opportunities. Women
are regarded as not economically capable to produce goods. More so, they
lack capital. This is evident in the men’s domination of virtually
every sector of the country’s economy like the import and export,
industrial, transport, agricultural and commercial sector. The effect is
that women participation in public affairs is drastically reduced
because they do not possesses the material base for political and
socio-economic self-assertiveness6.
1.3 Different Aspect to Women Discrimination
1. Physiology
Women has been discriminated against because of their physical nature.
They are regarded as been physically weaker than men, women’s destiny is
said to be rooted in their physical nature or can be traced to biology.
The characteristics of women is used against her for example in
Oragite in Anambra state, where i come from, a woman is not allow to
climb a pal or tree because of her bodily features or characteristics.
Women’s physical nature makes them to look less perfect in the eyes of
their male counter parts. According to Aristotle, he believed that women
are colder than men and thus less perfect and therefore like infertile
men. Women are regarded to be in virtue of a particular inability.
2) Psychology
Women are discriminated physiologically. The mental characteristics or attitude of a women is said to be irrational.
According to Aristotle; woman is more compassionate than man. More
easily moved to tears, while at the same time being more jealous, more
querulous, more apt to sold and to strike. She is more prone to
despondency and less hopeful than the man, more void of shame or
self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive and more retentive
memory7. Women are regarded as the non- thinking being
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