BiblicalAtheist ;c-10085137 said:LordZuko;c-10085133 said:BiblicalAtheist ;c-10085090 said:LordZuko;c-10085006 said:Women have never had the same level of obligation or duty to the larger society as men. So no they were never on par with men.
These statements are funny because how would women have the same level of obligation or duty to the larger society like men if men were the ones deciding what a woman can/can't do so as to effectively remove those obligations. You're using the subjugation of women as justification in your argument.
All places of employment ban sex discrimination. You can look at a current model of occupations broken down by sex and you will see that women primarily work in white collar professions or blue collar service industry.
Women today aren't trying to work in coal mines or power plants or change the light bulbs on radio towers. Women primarily are not truck drivers garbage men or any of the labor that requires loads of time and physical labor.
Women check out of high end white collar jobs because they want the time to have family.
Women by nature are risk adverse. The only reason you have so many in the armed forces is because in reality we aren't fighting major enemies. Sign up get paid for the contract and get out. Most aren't even in combat roles.
So presently when women have the option to do any of these jobs, they don't. There's no evidence too suggest they would have back then either. Given the fact that much of the labor that comes with infrastructure building is upper body intensive, including women would have been inefficient and detrimental.
So let me clarify. Women had and have neither the ability nor inclination to take on the obligations and duties men are expected to in order to maintain a society.
Okay so are you going back 40-80 years or centuries of subjugation? Cuz you if you go all the way back, unless you're being intentionally ignorant, women never stood a chance. So while all these options are open to women now, and you keep repeating these things like "just because all these doors are open women should be jumping and bounding towards and because they're not is evidence of these couldn't do them". Like what?
Women were never subjugated on the basis of sex.
Women were subjugated right alongside men.
It was called the feudal period and people were tied to the land. That's in Europe. Even then women were not allowed in certain occupations because they physically could not perform the task. The freedoms that You think women should've had, men didn't Even have.
In Africa very different situation. Women had power and influence. Women commonly controlled the markets while the men did the physical tasks.
Even if you go back to the republic days of Rome or the city states of Greece. There were very few routes to power. This is the agrarian age where you were either a soldier, an artisan or a farmer. If you came from a wealthy family you could be a politician. Or if you were a notable general.
Women like men were tied to the land. Women spent most of the day doing the housework because it was all manual labor. It isn't until advancements are made like indoor plumbing, washing machines vacuums sewing machines that women were freed from the housework.
Being a wife was an occupation for women back then. If you weren't married you were more than likely going to be broke because again most jobs were manual labor. Before the industrial revolution most occupations for women were as domestic servants. After the introduction of the textile mills most women went until fabric making. Again soft blue collar positions.
Women advanced in society as men advanced society and made it easier and more convenient for them. Most women didn't even drive until the invention of power steering. Before that it required upper body strength to steer a vehicle.