THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN A MALE DOMINATED CULTURE: THE NSUKKA (IGBO) EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This paper discusses the gender discrimination, bias, inequality, and the preferential treatment given to the men at the detriment of women in Nsukka (Igbo) Society.  It investigates the cultural and the religious fables that battle and confound the attention of many protagonists and proponents of women cause and rebuilds it in the light of compendious egalitarian ethos. The finding of this paper reveals that women are often inflicted with physical and psychological abuse, debasement and injustice and most often unable to seek help and redress. Women often are alienated from some important activities in the community that are integral to proper human formation. This influences their attitude sometimes of not having ‘self definition’, this lack of self definition is  remotely influenced by some basic human denials like the  right to bequeath inheritance and the right to legal ownership of certain property. This research recommends therefore that there should be justice, equity, and balance on how women are treated and abrogation of all the archaic cultural myths that enslave, subjugate suppress and oppress women. The method adopted in this work in historic-descriptive which means that this cultural index has been studied overtime and hereby presented.