How to get rid of body-identification as a woman?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: A woman seen just as a body, it hurts a lot. I am saying this from my own experience. How can this stop? When will it stop? How can a person be seen just as a ‘body’?

What is the root cause? Where does it start?