Marxist explanations of gender inequality
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- Marxist explanations of gender inequality
- Reserve army of labour (Marx/ Feminists)
- It is mainly women who fill the ranks of the reserve army
- Women are regarded as secondary workers whose main responsibility is the home and children
- Freedman- married women are supposed to be dependent on their husband's wages and give priority to their home responsibilities
- Criticisms
- Functionalists- would argue that women have not achieved the level of skills necessary to be allocated in the best job roles
- Private property (Feeley)
- Family teaches children to submit to a form of patriarchal parental authority
- They become preconditioned to accept their place in the capitalist hierarchy and are though passivity, not rebellion
- Family is designed to teach traditional gender roles
- The capitalist ideology about nuclear families leads to the subordination of women to men
- Criticisms
- Walby (triple system Feminist)- racism, capitalism and patriarchy are interacting systems; women from ethnic minorities experience the greatest inequality
- Family teaches children to submit to a form of patriarchal parental authority
- Class differences (Skeggs)
- Not all women are oppressed to the same degree
- There are class differences between women and they do not all enjoy the same lifestyles and incomes
- Working class women have lower life chances are more oppressed by a dual system of class oppression and patriarchy
- Criticisms
- Radical Feminists- Skeggs used a small sample and interpretivist methods; women told her social class was irrelevant but she highlighted it as an issue
- Supported by Walby and her triple system Feminism
- Cultural capital (Bourdieu)
- Men may have the dominant culture and power to see this as a norm, thus disadvantaging other genders
- Women working in the London banking sector were excluded when they didn't attend late night drinking sessions and going to ***** clubs
- They won their sex discrimination case because this was used to discriminate against them when promoting employees
- Criticisms
- Cultural capital is hard to define and Bourdieu has been accused of proposing that one type of cultrure was superior to another culture. Feminisation of workplace.
- Reserve army of labour (Marx/ Feminists)
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