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GS English: Women in Capitalism

Von • Mrz 19th, 2023 • Kategorie: International

Women in Capitalism
Legally Equal, Morally Respected, Badly Treated

[Translated from Gegenstandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 4-2019, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich]

Even long after women have achieved equal rights with men, after they have become the majority of high school graduates and the ones with the better grades too, and make up the majority of students in many university study programs, after they have found their way into many professions previously known as male domains, there is still plenty of discrimination against women and sexual attacks on them. Gender equality activists wage the fight against this by accusing the male world of continuing to deny women a self-assured role and due respect for their self-determination. They accuse men of sticking to old thinking and yesterday‘s gender role models. By demanding respect they kick at open doors everywhere — in politics, public opinion, and especially academia. Apart from gangsta rap cult figures and the very conservative who will not let go of traditional family values, there is no one who would hesitate to tip the hat to women as fully-fledged, professionally and altogether independent members of society. There are equal opportunity commissioners, measures for advancing women, and academic chairs for women wherever you look. Gender-conscious language is widespread; people modify words and grammar to make sure that whenever human beings are mentioned in a sentence women are specifically thought of and honored. [1]

So why is it that the good will that everyone professes hardly alters the social disadvantages, insults, attacks and harassment that women experience? Why is there such a discrepancy between the official morality and that practiced in daily life? In other words, are the prejudices that women face and the social roles that tie them down really due to a lot of men’s deformed characters, or are there more substantial reasons?

I. Persisting disadvantages in careers and the world of work

– The “gender pay gap” — and the social reason for it
– “Female jobs” — typical, but of what?
– Discrimination and bans on discrimination

II. The assault culture — and its basis in the family

– The family: Jointly coping with the need to function in the world of work …
– … and its higher purpose: To compensate for the hardships of working life
– Love with the goal of marriage — The compensatory counterworld to competition
– Right and duty to have sex

III. Morality — A social objectivity

IV. The demand for respect

https://en.gegenstandpunkt.com/article/women-capitalism



„Juristisch gleichgestellt, moralisch geachtet, schlecht behandelt: Die Frau im Kapitalismus“ (GS 4-19)

Frauen genießen reichlich öffentlichen Respekt. Das passt wunderbar: nämlich dazu, dass das weibliche Geschlecht mit jeder Menge sozialen Benachteiligungen und einer regelrechten Kultur persönlicher, sogar sexueller An- und Übergriffe zu tun hat.

Woher soziale Schlechterstellung von und private Übergriffigkeit gegen Frauen kommen, wieso die Gegenkultur des besonderen Respekts dazu gehört, also nichts daran ändert, erklärt dieser Artikel …

https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/artikel/frau-kapitalismus

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