I think you're right about the gender-role rigidity assumed in her system. I get the sense that the majority of her adherents are housewives in an old-fashioned/traditional sense -- the true division of control in its ideal sense. By "ideal" I mean that the whole seperation of labor (man goes and makes the money, woman takes care of the home/kids) is also defined by who's in charge of decisions in those realms. If a woman is "stuck" at home, the least she should get is control over household-related decisions.
If a man is bringing in all the income and the woman is doing all the homemaking, then it does seem like the system would be made more palatable to the woman that way. Of course, when I was a housewife I wasn't respected in that realm, hence one of the reasons I'm no longer a housewife or a wife, for that matter.
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Date: 2006-11-05 12:07 pm (UTC)If a man is bringing in all the income and the woman is doing all the homemaking, then it does seem like the system would be made more palatable to the woman that way. Of course, when I was a housewife I wasn't respected in that realm, hence one of the reasons I'm no longer a housewife or a wife, for that matter.