From Androcentric Ideology To Internalize The Socialization Of Women

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Over the centuries and in many different countries, women have spoken out for their community and articulated their complaints, their needs and their hopes as it was believed that women were inferior, uneducated and insulted, oppressed from birth. Androcentric society always prioritize men above women in every aspect such as economic, political and social. The patriarchal mode of thinking subordinate’s women to men in familial, religious, political, economic, social, legal and artistic domains. Androcentric ideology teaches women to internalize these concepts in the process of their socialization. As Tyson stated,
The belief that men are superior to women has been used, feminists have observed, to justify and maintain the male monopoly of positions

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