Oppression of Women and Economic Oppression
The feminist movement was big in the 1960's and 1970's in many industrialized nations, however the less developed nation and some of the developed nations did not jump on the bandwagon when it came to the equalization of women. The oppression of women has been occurring in many nations for many years and one significant factor that it can be reduced to is economic repression. Whether it is because women do not get paid as much as men do for the same job, or men in the homes keep a rein on the purse strings it cannot be denied that the underlying factor in the oppression of women is by wielding economic depression as a tool. Karl Marx was renowned for his beliefs when it comes to the oppression of women worldwide. According to Marx and many others who agree with him the most significant cause of female oppression is economic oppression. Marx believed that the environment that one is forced to exist in perpetuates that person's existence. In other words environment shapes the individual. Therefore it stands to reason that when women are oppressed economically by a variety of means including glass ceilings, controlling spouses and societal attitudes the women will become the subservient beings they are trained t
o be. This cycle feeds the oppression of women which in turn feeds the cycle of economic oppression being used to control them(The Marxist View of the Oppression of Women http://www.maricarmenmartinez.com/Marx.html). "The fundamental oppression of one human being by another is economic exploitation. When the drive for private property arises in a community it causes exploitation. The focus of men shifts to the acquisition of material goods and wealth, rather than in the productive activities that generates them. Labor is the mayor productive activity of any economic system; yet, in capitalistic societies the workers are alienated from the products of their work. They are exploited since the worker works for the owner who enjoys the products and the value of the worker's labor. The owner pays the worker less than the worth of his labor and so he cannot even purchase the products that he creates(The Marxist View of the Oppression of Women http://www.maricarmenmartinez.com/Marx.html)." Women who work in a domestic position are made to feel devalued as they are not paid for their services, therefore they are not worthy of opinions or considerations when it comes to the "important" decisions such as politics and social values, according to the societal attitude. A more recent supporter of the theory that economic oppression is an underlying cause of the oppression of women was Alison Jaggar. Jaggar, a well known feminist believed that there is a direct and traceable link between class structure and the oppression of women. Class structure is for the most part det
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