Describe the major assumptions of Feminism.

 Major assumptions of Feminism:-The rational, autonomous person is seen as being isolated, with needs and interests separate from, and even in opposition to those of every other individual.  By placing such a premium on human liberty and the individual’s rights, the liberals seem to believe that there is no common answer to the fundamental questions of political philosophy.

The essential unity of the self through space and time: how is self-identity possible, they ask, given that psychology has enabled us to understand that the workings of the unconscious mind are often inaccessible to us?

Ideological Assumptions behind Sexual Division of Labour:-

The fact is that it is not a “natural” biological difference that lies behind the sexual division of labour, but curtain ideological assumptions. So on the one hand, women are supposed to be physically weak and unlit for heavy manual labour but both in the home and outside, they do the heaviest of work – carrying heavy loads of water and firewood, grinding corn, transplanting paddy, carrying head-loads in mining and construction work.

But at the same time, when the manual work that women do is mechanized, making it both lighter and better-paid, then it is men who receive training to use the new machinery, and women are edged out.

This happens not only in factories. but even with work that was traditionally done by women within the community; for example, when electrically operated flour mills replace hand-pounding of grain, or machine-made nylon fishing nets replace the nets traditionally hand-made by women,  it is men who are trained to take over these jobs, and women are forced to move into even lower-paid and Inure arduous manual work.

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