A woman on the Edge

A woman on the Edge Gender Inequality There have many elements of gender inequality discussed throughout the semester. One point that I found interesting was, the ideal that the reproductive ability of women created a power imbalance so strong that the society of the future has to come up with a way to remove this imbalance by industuralinzing in a sense reproduction. (Kimmer & Merssner, 1998) I have mixed feelings about this, because on the one hand …

…that women can achieve long-lasting and basic changes in their position. As women do not form an independent class, they cannot form by themselves a movement, which will consistently fight for changes in the position of women. I feel that any change in women's position so far has come about as a result of broad-based movements in society and the participation of women in them. This is what needed to make a change for women.