The second sexism

  http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Intro_Philosophy_SP_2011/Benatar_Second_Sexism.pdf The reading for this week is chapter 5, part II of The Second Sex (title of the chapter is “The Married Woman”). Begin by outlining for the reader the most significant ways in which traditional marriage has, according to de Beauvoir, perpetuated the subordination of women and helped to maintain their second- class status in society. A good rule of thumb is to dedicate two pages to answering this part of the question. Throughout The Second Sex, de Beauvoir often takes note of the fact that the situation of women is changing (for the better) but that some barriers to women’s progress and limitations on their autonomy stubbornly persist and will take time and a great deal of effort to remove. In the third and final page of your paper, I would like you to consider whether any of the especially stubborn barriers/limitations identified and discussed by de Beauvoir in “The Married Woman” are still a problem for women today. If so, do they impact women in the same way they used to or are their effects lessened or blunted by the availability of a greater number of options for women? I hope this is clear.