Feminism

In Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions, Kristine M. Baber and Katherine R. Allen strongly believe that women are oppressed as a group. In What is Feminism: a Re-examination, Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley agrees that women experience discrimination because of their gender. This repression is partially caused by the reasons behind the social role theory, which is that a traditional division of lab creates expectations about how the men and women are supposed to act based on their different roles. Women are expected to be more friendly, sensitive, nurturing, expressive, polite, and accommodating than men because of their traditional role as the primary caregivers. Additionally, women gain more satisfaction from helping others because they are socialized to feel this way. Betty Friedan, in her book The Feminine Mystique, suggest that women oppress themselves because they feel that in order to be loved, they have to put the needs of others ahead of their own. This occurs especially in marriage.

• Gender Minority