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I want to counter the “women’s right to work movement was just a ploy to double the workforce” because it implies that there is a double meaning or some wild co
by SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
I want to counter the “women’s right to work movement was just a ploy to double the workforce” because it implies that there is a double meaning or some wild conspiracy. In reality, women being financially independent is highly protective against financial abuse. Financial
Abuse occurs in the vast majority of domestic violence cases and a majority of victims who return to their abusers do so because of financial insecurity. With the additional risk that the majority of women who are murdered are murdered by their abusive partners, a woman’s right to work is a matter of survival. That it has additional consequences societally, such as workforce doubling, doesn’t mean that there aren’t women behaving independently for their own benefits more so than there are “they” who manipulate half the population for some nebulous capitalist gain.