Radical View in Eliminating Womens Oppression

INTRODUCTION
For many years now, the knowledge of women’s struggle with increased violence, inequalities in terms of access to resources, ownership of property and oppression in many aspects of lives in different societies cannot be reemphasized. As a result, various feminism movements have been formed in which each perspective provides a different contribution in trying to offer an understanding and solutions on different issues of different societies through observations and studies.Ferminist theories of the liberal, Marxist, radical and even the post-colonial perspective all cover certain aspects of lives in societies. The essence of this essay however is to critically analyze the main arguments of radical feminists and the solutions that they offer for eliminating women’s oppression. Providing illustrations and giving examples from Zambia.
According to Lewis, (2012), Feminism may be described as a body of thought which suggests that women have been and are disadvantaged in both past and contemporary societies. Feminists emphasize the extent to which societies are in several respects patriarchal, in the sense that, societies are dominated by men who oppress and exploit women. There are several varieties of Feminism but they all stress the exploitation of women. They argue that it is vital to clarify the meanings of the concepts of sex and gender respectively; that powerful processes of gender socialization operate to the disadvantage of women, starting from female students who have been disadvantaged in education and to some extent still are, despite their recent relative improvement, women are further exploited at work, in the family and in society generally where they may often face sexual harassment and/or male violence.
In a Zambian scenario, considering education opportunities, in as much as there has been efforts from the government to give equal chances to both sexes in terms of access to education, majority of families which are financially unstable still prioritize boys to go to school ahead of a girl despite the fact that a girl child has the potential to excel in their studies as well. Most parents in many parts of Zambia especially those with a low level of education do not believe that a girl can be anything but a wife to someone and must stay at home to do all the housework like cooking,washing,fetching water while the boys go to school. This kind of attitude in some families has resulted in a lot of girls in most compounds like Kanyama and mississi to go into early marriages and the majority spend much of their lives at home and eventually marrying and having children without attaining any education. And to them this is viewed as an achievement, all this is due to the socialization that their was imparted in them, thus this trend will spread to the future generations to come.

It is further explained by Walters (2012), that the Gender differences in socialization within the family and elsewhere traditionally operated to the disadvantage of females who were dissuaded from opting for meaningful careers. The traditional allocation of roles within the family whereby females take disproportionate responsibility for housework and childcare is determined not by biology but by limited female employment opportunities outside the family and by the existence of patriarchal power within the family. Many household tasks provide few opportunities for individual creativity. Even well qualified professional women will find their career prospects more limited once they take time out from work to care for young children.
Besides in Zambia, it has been believed that certain career courses such as engineering, mining and medicine are meant to be pursued by men, it is part of the reason that most women pick certain career due to the fear of failure and worse off some teachers may speak in ways that may cause oppression to the female group at a very tender age, taking for example in some primary schools where girls are told that mathematics and sciences are very difficult and that only guys can manage to get excellent grades, this always has a negative impact on a girl child that they resort to give up their education or perform very poorly . Another example can be seen at the university of Zambia way back, where only few countable women would be submitted in the school of sciences, despite the increase in number over the years still more only few women tend to graduate in the fields of engineering, mathematical courses as well as other mechanical courses offered in the school.