The women working in various
sectors are not only being
exploited along with males but are
also being exploited more than
their male counterparts of their
sections by way of low wages. The
rulers and exploiting classes have
evaded bothering about the family
welfare related issues as their
responsibility and are considering
them as the personal matters of
workers. Due to this reason
conceiving, child-birth, rearing
children and the looking after
family welfare became a burden
to the women. The real reason for
this extra burden to women is the
exploiting classes only. But the
opinion viewing the male of the
house as the cause for the
exploitation of women will keep the
toiling woman in the opposition to
the toiling man. Such a view will
ignore that the toiling male and
female shall jointly oppose the
exploiting classes. Finally it
hinders the liberation of woman.
Instead of resolving the
contradictions between men and
women it confuses the
contradictions. In the society even
the toiling men have no rights and
freedom of any sort. Majority of
women are sharing their lives with
such men. The contradiction
between the exploited women and
men on one side, and the
exploiting classes on the other
side is only an antagonistic
contradiction. So the men and
women having a non-antagonistic
contradiction between them have
to fight against their foe. In the
course of such a struggle and as
a part of it the woman and man
shall find out ways to resolve the
contradiction among them. Only
by participating in the wider
struggles women can attain
awareness about their rights and
equality.
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In this society based on
personal property where the
exploiting ruling classes refuse to
take any responsibility about the
toiling men and women and their
children, the family system alone
is working as their welfare system.
In the degraded living conditions
family alone is keeping them alive.
The system of male
hegemony and dominance viewed
women as a machine that satisfies
sexual urges and reproduction.
Woman is not only an entity of
reproduction but is also a human
being that has been striving for the
development of society as a part
of the society has been highly
neglected. Only due to the male
hegemonic ideology women are
being viewed as only the
instruments of sex.
Every human society is
controlling sexual relations
according to its stage of
transformation. The joint sexual
relations have been developed into
individual sexual relations in the
system of the monogamous
marriage.
But this system of marriage
of pairs came into existence with
the system of personal property,
had controlled the sexual relations
of women in the family. In order to
continue the system of male
luxury and sexual enjoyment a
parallel system of ‘prostitution’
came in to existence to that of
monogamous family. Those
women i