Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 9. May 4 1981
Who Benefits from Women's Oppression?
Who Benefits from Women's Oppression?
By paying women lower wages, forcing women back into the homes in times of economic crisis, and using women to rear the future labour force, it is big business, not individual men, who really benefit.
Sexism is used by big business and the government to justify the super-exploitation of women.
In order to finally end the exploitation of women, including its most brutal manifestation - rape, we must have a economic system which is based on people not profit.
The struggle against rape must be seen as part of the overall struggle against the oppression of women, and most importantly it must be waged by both men and women.
Lorna Massof