Why do Women Occupy the Subordinate Position in the Sex/Gender System

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Philosophy

 

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Martha H

 

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April 18, 2011

 

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This brief essay will examine gender inequalities within our sex/gender system, but specifically on why women occupy subordinate roles. As Aristotle and Garlen were mistaken to hold the idea that female organs are a lesser form of the male’s and therefore, women are lesser than men (Laquer 1990, 149)...
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Freud also develops this notion of a phallic society and suggests that women are deficient because she lacks a penis and her whole psychological makeup is based on the struggle to make up for this deficiency (Wearing 1995, 4), thus, the beginning of gender differences. Parsons and Bales (1955) place a more sociological explanation and justification for such gender difference...
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