The State has become the forbidding guardian of the family

Apr 11, 2016 by

feminismby Belinda Brown, The Conservative Woman:

Many detractors rightly see links between feminism and Marxism. However, because feminists attach such importance to the workplace, feminism has actually become the handmaiden of capitalism in its rawest form. As feminists have prioritised participation in the workplace over family and the community their ideology has been easily co-opted into the government’s economic concerns.

As feminism has become ever more deeply embedded in government so it has provided our ministers with the rationale and justification for getting ever increasing numbers of women out to work. Over the past few decades women moved from being housewives with a peripheral economic role, to the majority being in employment, and while this was initially part-time there are now ever increasing numbers of women in full-time work. The housewife is almost extinct.

The main thrust of our Government’s policy in relation to women has been to provide more and more childcare; this also dominated the Labour party manifesto. Furthermore, the tax and benefits system is structured in a way that prevents a main breadwinner from being able significantly to increase his income; financial thumbscrews are in place that force women out to work.

Yet in 1998 the government conducted a postcard campaign to find out what women’s concerns were. They received 30 000 responses which showed that work-life balance was women’s primary concern. There have been numerous surveys, all of which have shown that women would prefer to spend less rather than more time at work. However government policies steered successfully by feminist pressure groups have ensured that women spend less time at  home with their families and ever increasing amounts of time out at work.

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