The Working Woman

The economic aspects of the inferior position of women in our society provide the most immediate benefits to capitalism. Whenever capital needs to draw women out into the labor force, it has been able use the ideology of male superiority to justify the super-exploitation of women workers-that is, women being paid less for doing the same work as the men. After all, "a woman's place is in the home","a man has the responsibility of supporting a family, a woman only works because she wants to".

The assumption is that the woman's main role is that of the tender mother hence, she is forced to take care of her children, even if they are unwanted, even when she is divorced. Any woman who wants more out of life is termed "unnatural" or "unfit". The lie is pushed that women are fit only for domestic chores and that therefore their labor is not worth as much as the labor of men.