Reading Reflection 5

The article “Feminism and Capitalism: The ideological Dilemma Of Coexistence” talks about how feminism within oppression and capitalism and economic power is represented. This article explains very clearly how economic oppression and capitalisms play a huge part in women and gender. To exemplify, I didn’t really understand what capitalism was. Still, the way the author explained it here made me realize and be more comfortable with understanding what capitalism was like “Capitalism as an economic system is understood to be inherently exploitative and oppressive, especially with regard to the power asymmetry between the owner of the factors of production and the individuals who sell their labor.“.They use this information to describe better how capitalism leads to oppression and leads to women’s labor and unequal power structure and how it’s normalized because of capitalism. The article states “Women are disproportionately being affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, the triple burden of work, and lack of access to resources and opportunities”.These structures end up being so normalized that, that is why there is a lot of feminism because we want to change that in today’s society because we want more control than being controlled in an unequal way. The article “Feminism and Capitalism: The ideological Dilemma of Coexistence” gave a clear view of capitalism within women and gender within equity and inequality and how economic power can have a huge impact in today’s society and how women and many feminist changes the ways we are being treated for the better of our society and economy.

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