The main focus of “In the Ruins of Patriarchy” was the development of the Woman Question and its solutions regarding the role of women in modern society stemming from the reorganization of society from simple, agricultural lives with clear patriarchal hierarchies to life dictated by the rules of the market system. The new form of life created by the industrial revolution no longer valued the domestic work done by women or even the skills that they possessed during pre-modern society and, instead, excluded women from the public sphere of the economy. This exclusion caused society to view women as inferior and alien to men because of their biological characteristics, such as empathy. One solution to the Woman Question regarding the woman’s role
