Feminism

Question 1

Feminist Views

Answer 1

Feminists view society focus on the inequities between two groups, men and women

Question 2

Ann Oakley

Answer 2

Oakley suggested that children learn gendered behaviour through canalisation

She also calculated that women spent an average of 77 hours a week on domestic duties

Question 3

Betty Friedan

Answer 3

Many American housewives felt dissatisfied with their lives. Yet they had been socialised into ‘the feminine mystique’

Question 4

Kate Millett

Answer 4

Milett suggested that men dominate women in the family and every other sphere of life

Question 5

Shulamith Firestone

Answer 5

Firestone said women must be freed ‘from the tyranny of their reproductive biology’ to be no longer dependent on men during pregnancy, nursing and child rearing

Question 6

Susan Faludi

Answer 6

Faludi warned women not to give up on feminism, as equality had still not been achieved

Question 7

Laura M Purdy

Answer 7

Purdy suggests that temporarily opting out of having babies by mass decision would enable women to pursue the careers they currently find difficult to fit around domestic responsibilities

Question 8

Feminist achievements

Answer 8

Legal abortions

Sex discrimination in employment and
education outlawed

Equal pay

Martial rape outlawed