Educating the Man: Option for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to address the problem of gender inequality. It locates the origin of gender inequality in a cultural history in which man had played a domineering role, stressing that any genuine effort at addressing the problem must start from the man. It posits that the education and reorientation of the man would bring about a new turn of mind in man about his self-arrogated roles in view of the existential realities. A new turn of mind by man, it is believed, will usher in equality that hitherto was limited by the law of the land. And so, in an atmosphere of gender equality, freedom and security for all being, women would be encouraged to participate fully in the educational, economic, political, social and other developmental activities of their societies. This of course, would result in the much sought for equality of opportunities and empowerment for women.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n4p475