Critique Of Mill's Subjection Of Women

The overall critique for Mill is that he does not go too in depth to say how exactly these changes should be made. Societal changes are a hard thing to change, especially when they are the status quo and norm for people. When people have not experienced something different, they revert back to and conform to society. Therefore, although there were many women who were also advocating for the same rights that Mill is advocating for, there is not much information on how to get from point A to point B. Society influences much of what people do, say, think, and how they act, so getting a massive change to be put in place, and for a group of people who have been majorly oppressed year after year is a daunting task. Mill puts so much emphasis on government control because that’s where the power was held, but as things trickle down through social classes, more and more people are included in the …show more content…
He also doesn’t have an exact tactic in how to achieve such rights that he supports and seems to want men to promote this type of equality somehow. Again, although government can change laws and ways of life, society is much more impactful in how people lead their lives. This also leads into his lack of appropriating and estimating other outcomes that would be possible in the future, like diverse familial situations, how biological influences actually influence men and women, and gender pay gaps that are more abundant and likely than not. Taking these deficiencies into account, Mill is correct in that women are not always and necessarily treated equally to men and it is a constant fight to gain this equality. Like the examples that Mill used of comparing a slave to a wife, both women and slaves have been oppressed longer than they have had freedom and the rights that should be irrefutably given to