Many factors affect females and encompass the sense of vulnerability and the unfamiliarity with issues such as terrorism. Nevertheless, it has been established that women destroy themselves with their aspects of being women. Engaging in warfare is deemed as getting into a status of manhood. Though the majority of people cannot anticipate any violent behavior being done by women, female terrorists cope with each facet of terrorism and feminine attributes do not hinder their adjustment to cruel terrorist tasks and actions. Women are viewed as passive, delicate, and dupe-like.
The aspect of discouraging females from such things as terrorism starts from childhood where boys are bought gun-toys to play with while girls are bought dolls to cherish. Such generally gendered functions form the social order. The practice of terrorism has been associated with masculinity with the sexual roles being offered to females, which has greatly reinforced the subordination, quelling, weakness, and degradation of women. The self-worth of females has been significantly destroyed through the operations of most terrorist groups. God-like status of the male heads drew female terrorists while assisting in the construction of female terrorist character; in this regard, female terrorists were stimulated by similar motivations and conditions that stimulate male terrorists.
It is evident that terrorism is carried out as a group action; on this note, collective ideological dedication, as well as group cohesion, is a more considerable determining factor of terrorism operations when judged against individual attributes. Nonetheless, terrorist suicide is fundamentally an individual, instead of a group, occurrence. The major reasons behind terrorism could be attributed to lack of democratic organization, need for civil liberties, the set laws, excessively quick transformation, radical philosophies, record of brutality, civil conflicts, autocracies, occupation, unlawful and crooked governments, oppression by overseas occupation and colonial authorities, social unfairness, and the existence of compelling ideological leaders.
Female terrorists are mainly inspired by vengeance, liberation, respect, and affiliation. The killings of loved ones, incapacity to bear children, being deemed unmarriageable, and reinvention because of claimed or actual sexual misconduct are the greatest causes of female terrorism. Spiritual and cultural dissimilarities have influenced the processes of terrorist operations. The support of terrorism amid females and males could be comparable.
The approval of terrorism in opposition to the United States did not occur directly from disengagement with individual, cultural, financial, and social conditions but instead from perspectives regarding the person or thing blameworthy for the state of affairs. In addition, there was no difference between males and females in their perception regarding terrorism as both females and males, having no confidence in internal political affairs and great condemnation of the United States foreign policy, were probable of expressing their support for terrorism in opposition to the American targets. The support of terrorism is the initial stride to becoming a terrorist.
There are many opportunities for women with respect to terrorism. For instance, they could act as collaborators, spies, human shields, suppliers of ammunitions, physical, sexual lures or through the internet, and as executors of the activities of harm and killings. Economic unsteadiness and the perceptions of the tasks of women by men, created the situations that resulted in hostility against women, which weakened the capability to form nonviolent societies. In response to such conditions, women resorted to violent behaviors. Hence, female terrorism was generated by the occurrences within the society.