POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Marxist Feminism, Double Burden, Proletariat
30 Oct 2018
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Women face inequality in opportunity (due to unequal treatment in the private sphere) Equality might require treating people differently so that they have the same opportunities. Affirmative action policies designed to combat policies in the business world that make it more difficult for women to succeed than men. Legal obstacles are not the only barrier women face. More subtle structural barriers are often at work. For example, it is mire difficult for women to fully participate in the public sphere because of the differential responsibilities that the patriarchy has assigned in the private sphere. Politically, this means changes to government policy to enable women to participate in the public realm as equals. In sum, the general point of liberal feminism (classical and reform) is not that men and women are fundamentally different. They sometimes play different roles in society because of history/culture. Politics should be structured to facilitate this equality.
