Forbes: Feminism Can’t Divorce Its Debt To Capitalism

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'While feminism today spans the political spectrum, its most radical proponents were spawned by the same cultural Marxism covered here previously. Feminism ostensibly focused on promoting women, but in practice attacked the traditional family through the sexual revolution, abortion on demand and no-fault divorce. None of which elevates women.

Feminism as exemplified by NOW, and many Women’s Studies professors at universities, interpret life by dividing society between oppressors and oppressed. Like many of their leftist comrades, these self-proclaimed women’s advocates inevitably champion dependence on government intervention or wealth redistribution: gender based affirmative action, legislating away the “wage gap,” and publicly funded daycare.
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As capitalism endured growing pains, early factories were not the bastions of comfort and ergonomics workers know today. Labor was difficult and often dangerous. Hours were demanding. Conveniences were rare. Early cottage industries and even many factories such as the textile mills in Lowell, Mass., mainly employed women, but young ladies desiring better lives smartly extricated themselves from the workplace.

The Industrial Revolution showered great wealth on many families opening previously unattainable opportunities. Women often sought husbands capable of affording them the chance to manage the home. Finally, women could stay home and care for their own children instead of fighting their way through the world.

But the markets marched onward. Modern workplaces improved — air-conditioned offices, ergonomic tools, shorter hours and better compensation — and timesaving inventions such as vacuums, microwaves and dishwashers improved the dynamics of housework. Free markets birthed advances like baby formula and disposable diapers, further extending the feasible alternatives.

As housework became less consuming and workplaces became more appealing wives opted back in. Today both spouses can enter the workforce while maintaining comfortable living conditions and regular diets. Whether parents stay home and who that might be is nobody else’s concern, but bashing ancestors for not following paths that didn’t then exist is foolish.'