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There's different "flavors" of feminism. From what I remember, there's bourgeois, difference, radical, and post feminism. Bourgeois feminists believe that there's no difference between men and women (besides biological) and that men have more power because they have more resources (a clash of social classes), and that men and women would be more equal if they had more resources - i.e. jobs, capital, etc. In other words, the pie needs to be divided equally by giving women more positions of power and capital. Difference feminism is the idea that men and women are different, and that the qualities of men are over-valued and women's qualities are under-valued - i.e. morality. If you've heard of Gilligan's study of morality, her study found that men think more abstractly and by principles, while women are more emotional and situational. Radical feminism basically think that men are never going to give up power or change, and that since we can't get rid of men, it is necessary to start a separate community of women that excludes men - i.e. all-women run businesses, etc. The thing that most people forget when they think of radical feminism is that men can be feminists too. Post feminism is the belief that it's all been fixed, that women are liberated enough to exercise their sexual power freely (sort of a cultural identity crisis of contradictions in popular culture of what's desireable and what's not).
That said, I'm all for social parity, but I don't know how likely it is to happen.
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