POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Liberal Feminism
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Access, content published causes harm to particular community - structural - indirect type of harm. 25. 8% less then man who works full time. Fortune 500 countries - 24 women ceos. 195 states - 120 democracies - 10 headed by a women. Gendered assumptions imputed upon female candidates that doesn"t happen to male. Laws and social customs make women subject to more control. Eg. treated as sexual objects in beer commercials. Patriarchy - an unequal social system that priveeves one gender (male) over another (female) Women should have the same rights and freedoms as men.