Women are deities of prosperity. The person that desires affluence and prosperity should honour them. By cherishing women, O Bharata, one cherishes the goddess of prosperity herself, and by afflicting her, one is said to pain the goddess of prosperity.
श्रिय एताः स्त्रियो नाम सत्कार्या भूतिमिच्छता। पालिता निगृहीता च श्रीः स्त्री भवति भारत॥