Gender inequality Flashcards
Women must submissive wives to ensure a pure bloodline - Engels
Women’s subordinate position is result of development of nuclear family
Men required to control women to pass on private property of inheritance to legitimate children
wealth passed on to generations
Men need to exercise their control in the home if they do not have control of other areas of life - Zaretsky
Family time allowed proletariat men to be ‘boss’
tolerated powerlessness + frustration of being exploited at work as had private domain
take stress + frustration out on wives
Women do unpaid labour in the home and this is essential to the smooth running of Capitalism - Benston
women socialise + care for children = reproduces next generation workers at no cost to Capitalist workers
Women don’t need to be paid, therefore dependent on husband’s wage
don’t challenge Capitalism as nuclear family weakens position of individual e.g. father
Women act as a disposable and cheap part of the workforce which benefits a Capitalist society - Bruegel
women ready to work outside of home when society requires them to
RC uses women to join workforce in Economic boom + sends back to being housewife when not needed
become Cheap reserve army of labour
