The place of women in the advancement of business, technical and vocational skills

Abstract

The paper examined the place of women in the advancement of business, technical and vocational skills in the 21st century world as they initiate and establish business organizations either individually or as a group. Women are refined product of God or are helpmate to men. These imply that men cannot do without women, for that, they are the crown of their husbands, joy of the home and society. The position of women as competent business employees, competent skills initiator as electricians, carpenters, tillers and lot of more were also discussed. The major outcome of this paper includes that women should not be seen as second class citizen, weaker vessels in the home and society, working tools in the farm and that cultural emphasis that say a female child cannot answer his father name should be abolished. Based on the outcome of this paper, the paper concludes that women should be given the right on land, inheritance, cultural values and harmful norms and religious beliefs against women should be removed in the society. The paper suggests that government through its various agencies should map out strategies of reaching out and providing funds to those women who are willing to set up businesses. Men should encourage women to be educated by providing them with funds and the society should discard those unfavorable cultural practices that hinder women from maximizing their potentials in the business, technical and vocational skills.