How does tradition present with obstacles as a woman?"?

Answer 1

If the tradition was that something was for men only or that women are not able to have equal rights, it would discriminate against women. Traditions are very sacred to many people and hard to change since many are cultural or religious. This makes it harder for women to overcome the discrimination caused by them.

Answer 2

Traditions were started with the best of intentions and then over the ages have become twisted into something that many times are detrimental to women in general. There are cases where the women are the benifactors and they decide what goes but this is a very very low majority. I broke away from "tradition" and married outside my language, culture and religion. the funny thing was that the Community that I was part of where more "ashmed" of the fact that I would not choose one of them and that I would go and pollute myself with outsiders. On my wedding day there was a betting book open on how long our marriage would last - (I found out after the fact). By breaking with tradition I have been allowed to grow as an individual and as a women. I am highly educated, still happilly married with 3 teenage children - I never stayed home to look after the children as I believed that I could bring a better balance by going to work and my husband staying at home when he was not allowed to work in the countries that we were in. If I was forced to follow tradition I woudl have had to marry into my culture, know that I would have a totally unfaithfull husband (yes the men married the "right" girls but screwed anything available), that would regularly beat me to show who is boss, I would have wasted my education as I would have been forced to stay at home to look after the children, I would not be allowed to socially interact with those outside my culture - and this ladies was not an Asian Culture but rather a Western society living in a different country that wanted to keep the traditions of the homeland alive!!!!! All this in the name of Tradition in a modern 3rd world society.

Answer 3

Each religion has its own tradition for women. There has been too many restrictions on women especially in India and Muslim countries. Traditionally their educational levels were low, they were heavily dependant on men. First upon her parents and then after marriage ,husband, they have no scope for progress.