Impeded (verb): to slow the movement, progress, or action of (someone or something).
Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women: “…they are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex.”
Women writers are slowed down in writing because of the men’s character, behavior and the reaction the writer would receive from the ideas women were to write about. Women can be hesitant to write what they feel and think because of the fear of judgement and not being accepted as a legitimate writer. One mistake, and women writer can be written off as be hysterical people with a pen.
-”Impede.” Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 19 May 2014.
