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Feminism
structural conflict theory, Key facts & stats
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Key facts & stats
- 4/5 victims of sex-trafficking are girls
- UK women paid on average £380,000 in their lifetime whereas men paid £640,000 - lower pensions and less financial independence
- 62 million girls refused education globally
- Only 1/3 MPs are women
Offer a more extreme Feminist perspective on women's oppression, believing that patriarchal oppression of women is not only universal but has much deeper roots than Liberal Feminists believe
Focus on how patriarchal power is used in personal relationships through control, abuse, stereotypes and how this has a knock-on effect on all women's lives
Marxist feminists argues that women's oppression and subordinate position within society are beneficial to capitalism
Engels - the oppression of women emerged with private property
Libera Feminists believe gender equality can be achieved by breaking down the barrier between public and private spheres, in which women perform an expressive domestic role and men perform an instrumental and breadwinner role
Gender equality can be achieved by working within the current patriarchal system
Postmodern feminists argue that we cannot generalise about women's experience of oppression under patriarchy as they vary depending on overlapping or intersectional identities
We cannot generalise about the experience of