Contrary to popular belief, feminism did very little to "liberate" women. Rather, the technology created by men is mostly responsible for women's improved conditions. The chores of the household were greatly reduced because of man-made technology, such as the dishwasher, refrigerator, electric stove, and washer/dryer units neatly stored in closets. Before these inventions, women would have spent a full day's labour merely chopping wood, starting fires, boiling water, packing ice, churning butter and scrubbing clothes on the washboard. Since all of women's traditional work could now be done with the flick of a switch, it freed up women's time so they could enter into other fields of work during the day.
Women are not constantly pregnant from their teenage years to the end of their fertile years because of technological advances men created to benefit women, such as the birth-control pill and safe abortion techniques which freed women to look for other directions in life rather than simple motherhood. Feminism did comparatively miniscule things to liberate women. The only thing they really "freed" were their bossoms from their burning bras.
Submitted May 27, 2015 at 09:24PM by vewyvewyines http://ift.tt/1KoDRkx TwoXChromosomes
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