A Step Towards Equality By Susan Moller Okin And Kay And...

A Step Towards Equality Today our society considers that both men and women are equals, but are we truly equals? In this paper, I will argue how Okin’s arguments for housework division, divorce conflicts for women, and wage labor bring economic disparities between the male and female sex in the nature of marriage and family. I will also examine both casual arguments from Susan Moller Okin and Kay and Shipman. I will argue that although Kay and Shipman have good ideas about how confidence contributes to inequality, we should approach Okin’s solution to the problem of workplace inequality. Okin’s solutions consists of having a gender less society, sharing the income in traditionalis marriages, and changing divorce laws. For the purpose of this paper the term marriage is referred to as the union of a man and a woman. A traditional family is when the male is the primary income generator and the female is a house wife. Susan Moller Okin defines unpaid labor as housework. It is the traditional view of many that the woman should have a bigger responsibility when it comes to housework labor. In the traditional family, the woman is the one who stays at home and is mainly responsible for housework and raising the children if applicable. As for the man, he does as little to nothing. The percentage of women doing house work on an average day is 49 percent and it is 19 percent for men. (Sifferlin) In â€Å"Justice, Gender, and the Family† Susan Moller Okin demonstrates the inequality between