Since the causes of women's inferior status and unequal gender relations are
deeply rooted in history, religion, culture, in the psychology of the self, in laws
and legal systems, and in political institutions and social attitudes, if the status
and material conditions of women's lives is to change at all, the solutions must
penetrate just as deeply (Schuler and Kadirgamar-Rajasingham, 1992 qouted
in Batliwala, 1994: 130).