They are caretakers of the family whose role in life is exhausted by the tasks of finding a good husband, bearing children, and maintaining the household. Women are seen assigned by nature to be wives and mothers.
An unspoken consensus prevails that casts women into stereotyped roles that severely hamper their freedom to realize their creative potentials. In traditional cultures, and even in the West today, these limitations are considered almost intrinsic to the social order.
What are the obstacles to their freedom? Perhaps the most pervasive - and the most subtly disempowering - is the limitation placed on the opportunities available to women for personal expression and achievement. When we speak of “women’s liberation,” we first have to determine what women are to be liberated from.
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