Title: Gender and class: why women are oppressed | Workers' Liberty
Headings: Gender and class: why women are oppressed
Gender and class: why women are oppressed
Content: Women were brought into the work force as independent individuals. However underpaid or overworked the woman factory or office worker may be in the workplace, she is not part of any man's household, but an individual, independent worker. In this way capitalist laws have given a slight measure of forrnal equality with men. Capitalism did not create women's oppression, but it did create the conditions for the rise of the women's liberation movement Women now had an arena for organising collectively, so the possibility of winning equality through change in society became realistic. Women will never be liberated while class oppression exists, since so many women suffer from class oppression as well as sex oppression. Midd