Feminism: Is It Adequate To Gender-Based Identity?

Gender based identities have been created through the history and described by different perspectives from liberalism to evolutionally psychology. Liberal view of the role of women is that house work and childcare is a personal choice and women choose to do these tasks. Liberalism separates two aspects of life, public and private. They believe that public decision is political and economic matter to the life of people and personal decision is about what you do and buy. There is no connection between these decisions, and liberalism believes that women choose to take care of their children and do house work by themselves. However, feminism strongly disagree this liberal view because this division between public and personal choice is artificial. …show more content…
Patriarchy is a systematic division of labour which women are at the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchy. For example, family is a private property. It is widely recognised that women’s task in family is to raise and socialise children and to do housework, and men go out to work. Women are oppressed and controlled their life by men. Feminism argues that this is because of a systematic division of labour which patriarchal society creates. They also argue that this notion is created by men in order for them to benefit from patriarchal society. Even though liberal feminism disagrees against this view and argues that imbalances in the political system contribute to the gender-based identities, they believe that institutions need to be accessible to everyone but economic and political institutions are not open to women, which they describe as positive discrimination. Nevertheless, feminism disagrees against liberal feminism because if the society is gender equal (not a patriarchal), the institutions would reflect the way society is organised and would open to women and men equally. Therefore, patriarchy creates gender based