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Can a Marxist theory of class successfully explain gender inequality?

Social Class Inequalities
The main reason for social class inequalities in the private ownership is because of the means of production. Gender oppression is class oppression and women's subordination is seen as a form of class oppression which is maintained because it serves the interests of capital and the ruling class. The means of production include the key resources such as land, property and factories which are necessary to produce goods within society. So because of this an individual’s social class is defined by whether or not he or she owes the means of production. Marx outlined two basic social classes in the capitalist industrial society which he called the bourgeoisie which was the class of owners of the means of production. The other social class was the proletariat which is the working class who didn’t own anything. This resulted in the working class having no alternative means of livelihood......

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