Introduction
Feminism advocates equality of human rights between men and women socially, economically, and politically. Liberal feminism is the main branch of feminism that enquires about equality of human rights in a more political and legal form (Ogletree, Diaz, and Padilla, 2019). These have raised different views and opinions by the feminists while supporting women to be given equal rights as men. Whereas cultural feminism advocates for equal rights between men and women in all domains socially. Despite these differences, the main reason for feminism is to remove all the explicit barriers that lead to unequal treatment in society.
Most feminists want to feel equally powerful as men. By performing tasks that men perform, they are given equal employment opportunities and freedom to choose any career, even in a male-dominated profession. In addition, feminism advocates for equal leadership opportunities in organizations, in the community, and back at their homes, where they share equal home responsibility with their husbands.
Liberal Feminism
In the case given, through feminist legal methods, they may consider approving the right of the employer prohibiting women of childbearing age from working in the industry to avoid inhalation of the harmful gaseous products that may negatively affect them. Male was naturally made stronger than women, and honestly, not all fields that men work in women can handle. So, through contextual reasoning, feminists should first reason if they worked in the company and any adverse effects the gases produced would cause them (Jacquette and J.S 2018). If they found that the gases were harmful and may lead to complications in their body, they would approve the employer’s right to prohibit women from working in the company.
Through consciousness-raising, feminists would support the decision if most female workers feel unsafe working there. This helps women view what would happen at isolated instances of insensitivity and if it was safer for them to work around the male-dominated areas. Consciousness-raising also helps individuals unmask hidden bias and personal context to work in the company. If they find out in their conclusions that their conscience is against working in the company, they will approve its decision.
Unmasking patriarchy is a female legal method designed to uncover the male biases hidden beneath l. The masthead exposes the company’s unfairness by declining women to work. (Enyew and Mihret, 2018). If the liberal feminist finds out that the decision made by the employer was made based on gender, considering the input the female workers would put in place compared to the male workers, they would undoubtedly disapprove of it. This would also lead to the company facing gender-based consequences that the law creates because the unmasking patriarchy method already identifies them. Liberal feminism believes in the development of women in the masculine reserve (D’ganzio and Klein, 2020). Thus, it looks forward to equal opportunities because they think they can work in places where men can work. They also feel that they can only succeed in the male sphere of influence, and the company’s choice not to allow them to work will deny them a successful future. Consciousness-raising helps liberal feminist to understand their potential that they can work in whatever place a male is working at; thus, they would go against the company for not letting them explore and work on their potential.
Cultural Feminism
Cultural feminism is when a woman tries to revalue and redefine herself in the community. Cultural feminism states that women should not be treated equally as men should be treated. With this statement, cultural feminism would approve the employer’s decision of disallowing women in the childbearing stage to work in the company. If the work done in the company is more physical and so hard for women to bear with it, then cultural feminism will approve the employer’s decision. Cultural feminism believes that they essentially connect to other human beings through physical connections of intercourse, breastfeeding, and pregnancy, unlike the legal form, which dictates that human beings are distinct, separate, and physically unconnected to each other. It also believes in the development of women outside the male sphere of influence and does not require them to be employed in male-dominated fields. Cultural feminists also tend to respect men’s space because they know that men will never interfere with their space; thus, peace endures. So if the company decides only to have male employees, they tend to respect that because they are usually more interested in equal social rights than economic rights.
Cultural feminists urge a concept of equality before the law considers the biological and cultural differences between men and women. If the employer does not assume physical and cultural rights, the cultural feminists are likely to disapprove of the company’s decision. In the case given, cultural feminism would disapprove of the employer’s choice if the decision made by the employer disregards the biological and cultural rights of women. If the employer made that choice to avoid losses of compensation to women who go on leave during the child-rearing stage, cultural feminism would strongly oppose that decision because it is going against the natural rights of women. Many institutions, such as the workplace, follow regulations mainly based on male-dominated experiences, which is always a disadvantage to women, according to cultural feminists (Assi and S. S. 2019). This causes women who undergo biological damage such as pregnancy to quit jobs and concentrate more on the pregnancy.
Conclusion
Cultural feminism seems to be the best type of feminism, unlike liberal feminism. This is because cultural feminism believes in the development of women outside the male sphere of influence, unlike liberal feminism, which thinks they can only be successful if male dominance is neutralized. If women tend to follow cultural feminism, they will become more creative in exploring opportunities to work freely without being dominated by men. Cultural feminism applauds women’s differences, where these disparities have been renamed “women’s strengths” rather than “women’s shortcomings.” (Assi and S. S. 2019).
It also advocates more on equality of biological and cultural rights which is an advantage to women if they were given equal physical and cultural rights as men, unlike liberal feminism, which concentrates more on political rights and legal reforms (Law, and S. A.,2019). Cultural feminism also believes that women are connected to each physical interaction. In contrast, liberal feminism considers humans as different, physically unattached, and apart from others; it is fundamentally irreversibly masculine.
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