Feminism and Women’s Position in Society
This article shall be more theoretical concerning the study of the position of women within our societies.
The information and viewpoints expressed in this article vary depending on the nation you live in and which state your current location in the United States of America.
In regards to feminism, feminism is the fight to secure greater equality and equal opportunities for the female sex for women of the human species, which is a binary sex-species between men and women.
Apart from intersex, which make up 1% of the population.
Feminism can also be defined as pursuing female interests in broader society to change or strengthen institutions and how culture positively or negatively affects women.
Women’s place and position in society I do believe that culturally, women are somehow stationed in the middle between children at the bottom and men at the top in regards to women having independent agency to choose what they want to be.
However, women are still treated like children regarding their position within society. Women face a dilemma of being treated like adults that still require the same protections and leeway that is given to children, according to the feminist and author Louise Perry.
The Issue of Class
One argument commonly forgotten or deliberately forgotten in modern feminism is the issue of class.
It tends to be women from more affluent backgrounds or in positions of power where they pursue interests that benefit women of their social class and economic grouping.
The reasons why class, which means or refers to in the global context, is both difference and the opportunities provided to people’s indifferent wealth brackets.
For instance, I know somebody who is a parent between and over £180,000.
This meant they could provide their children with more opportunities to succeed in helping them buy their first homes, take paper driving lessons, and help out at university.
It’s these small advantages that compound over time. Which can help people as they become more successful and move faster in their careers.
Regarding my own social and economic background, my parents could not afford the Internet when I was growing up in a one-income household in northern England, as well as the shocking quality of living in a low-income area regarding local education.
I could not read nor write until I was at the age of 16 due to being from a lower socio-economic group, which wasn’t seen as a priority.
Concerning feminist issues, as class differences between feminists who fight for different outcomes that benefit and hurt people within the classes, higher-class women often promote social policies that sound good to their friends but do not support them in their personal lives.
Suppose you go into a dating app in a university city and log in as a man as you leave the University area.
In that case, you see an increasing issue of single mothers in their teens and early 20s.
In contrast, women in the universities do not have the same problem. This is not an ante baby argument, merely the case of people saying one thing and doing another, and it is the working-class women who are women from lower socio-economic backgrounds who suffer the most.
Having the security of wealth or living in a two-income household provides a greater safety net and other protection from the consequences which the women that put forward these policies are immune from because they operate this status level and the wealth level throughout interests are not in the benefit of most women.
Women, History and the Bell Curves
It is estimated that only 1.6% of human history has been recorded in written documents, oral history or other forms of historical traditions and archiving.
What this means for feminism and the study of women’s issues is that society only gets the viewpoints and interests of the famous, the rich and the massively successful in human history.
Historically, what this means is that humanity, until the 1960s, was a patriarchy. This was where men typically dominated positions of power and other forms of influence within society, which women could not enter due to social stigma, culture and other reasons.
The feminist author of The Feminine Mystique, first published in 1963 and written by Betty Friedan, would not have been able to pursue writing interests without the support and willingness of her husband to allow this to happen.
In the case of Betty Frida, she had a supportive husband, which enabled her to be a feminist, writer and author during the time in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, when it wouldn’t have been possible for her to do this without the support of a man.
We now live in a post-patriarchal society, at least in Western nations.
English-speaking people now live in a hierarchy that both men and women share.
However, it must be stated due to the bell curve statistics and the averages, and there are about two-thirds of school-age students identified with learning disabilities are males.
The research on learning disabilities (LD) purported that the ratio of boys to girls with learning disabilities was between 5:1 and 9:1, respectively, in the school-identified population.
In addition, not by just a little bit. At the higher end of the bell curve, the most intelligent people tend to be men, but that doesn’t prevent women from also operating at the higher end of intelligence.
The bell curve means that at the extreme ends and the population level, looking at the averages, men tend to have the most learning difficulties, with women having fewer learning difficulties than men on average.
In turn, fewer women are at the highest ends of the intelligence spectrum.
This is not to be hostile towards women in pursuit of equality.
It is how the statistics work out across human society and that the mean male and female intelligence as equals within the average society, just their differences at the extremes of the bell curve.
Compounding this, people are not interested in the peasant family number 1,000,012 in 1115 AD because it’s not very interesting, and people focus on the success and the historical significance, which is not much different than most people who live now in the 21st century.
They are destined to be forgotten.
However, these forgotten people live everyday lives, are not the people who rule over them and are not the average person within the empire, kingdom, or nation-state.
Most people are not Napoleon Bonaparte, Catherine the Great, Jeff Brasenose, Elon Musk or many others who are significant in present society and the history of humanity.
A great example is Confucianism, which will show the difference between the elites in China and their peasants and how they actually practised Confucianism differed significantly from one another.
The Chinese people who worked in the rice fields and were not rich women had to go out and work collaboratively with the family.
