Feminism

Question 1

What did Walby say about feminism?

Answer 1

• Patriachy must be central to understand society
• Recognising that women of different classes, ethnicities, and sexualities experience different things

Question 2

What are the 6 patriarchal structures that restrict women?

Answer 2

• Paid work
• Housework
• Sexuality
• Patriarchal society
• Male violence
• The state

Question 3

How does paid work oppress women?

Answer 3

• Women are 35% of MPs
• 32% of senior management positions are women
• Glass ceiling- women can see top jobs in society bit can’t get to them

Question 4

How does housework oppress women?

Answer 4

• Men benefit form women’s unpaid labour
• Oakley- 70% of women are unhappy with their jobs
• Women take on triple shift- paid, unpaid and emotional work
• Chuildren socialised into gender roles at home

Question 5

How does sexuality oppress women?

Answer 5

• Double standards for men and women
• Slut walks in US and Canada- police advised women to “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised’

Question 6

How does patriarchal society oppress women?

Answer 6

• Women are treated different to men
• Double deviance- punished for breaking social norms and for breaking the law

Question 7

How does male violence oppress women?

Answer 7

• From April 2016- March 2019, 222 women were killed by a partner or ex partner
• 218 suspects were male (98%)
• On average, 3 women were killed every fortnight by male partners and ex partners

Question 8

How does the state oppress women?

Answer 8

• The state does little to protect women from patriarchy
• Gender pay gap still exists
• At this rate, it will take 257 years to close the gender pay gap