“Women’s lives are shaped by numerous factors, including class and race as well as gender, and the interacting effects of these differences influence not only women’s status but their access to opportunity, their autonomy, and their experiences with many social phenomena, including technology.”
 

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“Many feminists analyses discuss the roots of this inequality, as well as whu ut persists. Although they vary in their casual explanations, they all explain gender inequality by analyzing social institutions. Marxist-feminists, for example, focus on capitalism, and see gender inequality as rooted in social class inequality. Radical feminists see gender inequality as rooted in a wider range of cultural institutions beyond the economy, including family, politics, and the media, which are all sites of male privilege and power. Liberal feminists believe that women’s inequality stems from a lack of opportunities for women and argue that legal change can increase equality.”

 
  “The status of women may be measured not only by their paid and unpaid labor and by health care issues, but also by their participation in centers of power in the corporation, government, and other decision-making bodies.”