Women empowerment hindered by 'collective socio- psychological inhibitions nurtured by patriarchal structures'.

​At the outset though it may sound over generalization, we need to get to the real root of the problem and not resort to masking  the symptoms through a gamut of non-committal escapist devices like verbal justifications, statistical data, surveys etc.

 

 

The root of the problems of women entrepreneurs has more to do with the generations  of 'collective socio- psychological inhibitions nurtured by patriarchal structures'. 

 

The very fact that  a topic like this crops up is because of the above reality or perception.

 

In terms of education, capabilities, economic status the modern-day women are well equipped on par, if not,  better than men. 

 

That being the case, what makes the society  to discuss or debate about problems of women entrepreneurs is not problems that are women generated but women centric because  despite all tall claims of empowerment and equality to women, the society is aware of the gender biased  discriminations and at least a few feels guilty about those discriminations. 

 

Most government policies across nations can at best draft policies that address superficially some of  these gender biased issues. But until and unless the socio- psychological barriers are culturally uprooted we may end up not addressing the real issue and instead create few more delaying tactics with terminologies that have a halo around them like women empowerment.

 

Society has been guilty of two dangerous approaches which will never allow larger sections of human beings the actual plight/progress preventing aspects of womanhood are: - one scripting sensational stuffs, adrenal provoking preaching or leftists’ one sided sloganeering with a selective/narrow hidden agenda/propaganda of finding faults or provoking a sense of perennial victimhood only with particular social/religious systems and two producing sickening status quo promoting far rightists’ traditions and orthodoxy.

 

Both these approaches prevent us from taking notice of /being aware of how the whole society inflicts pain, indoctrinates its predefined identities on womanhood and curtails their freedom in many areas of activities.

 

Besides, these approaches also prevent us from gradually rectifying the mistake at every micro level within each family by creating atmospheres to ensure not enough freedom to women as very often to deny freedom to them men have very handy  existing literature, prejudices, traditions etc to justify the stand.

 

Constant ideological indoctrination has also erased self-love from the hearts of many women.

 

I wish that every woman keeps repeating the following quotation on a daily basis from Marcus Annaeus Seneca 

 

"What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”
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