This paper examines Mnguember Vicky Sylvester’s novel, Long Shadows, within a context and analyses the social status and entrepreneurial activities of women characters like Ayima, Awange, Mary and Maria, Mnguemo, Dooshima and Torkwase. This is in order to reveal their position and contribution to society and how they function alongside men seeking for gender parity. The paper reveals that the women characters are represented with honour and integrity. They are industrious and enterprising and do one business or the other to create wealth and support themselves and their families. They are financially, socially and mentally independent. Their relationship among themselves is cordial and they support and encourage one another. Their interaction with men is both positive and negative. They accept and compliment men who are rational and who treat women fairly and see them as complete people. On the other hand, they have no regard for roguish men who maltreat and subdue women. Such men are seen as enemies and are treated with disdain. The paper concludes that the novel upholds the ideals of the socialist feminists that seek for equality between women and men. It promotes and empowers women with ideas to establish their authority and seek for equality with men. The paper is a contribution to gender concerns and it suggests that gender entrepreneurship, gender equality and balance and women’s empowerment will make a better society.