John Stuart Mill's Ideas Of Feminism

Feminism in its broad sense is a movement that aims at establishing and achieving equal political, economic, cultural and social rights for women. It believes that both men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. Feminists call for the right of women to receive education, to have equal opportunities in work as well as equal pay. Additionally, they believe that women should be self- determined and have the right to vote. Feminism actually emerged as a reaction against the unjust treatment and subjugation of women; it aims at the emancipation of women from all forms of oppression. It sought for the equality of women and change of the existing gender relations prevalent in patriarchal societies. In fact, Feminism struggles to eliminate sexism and put an end to the supremacy and domination of man as well as the devaluation and subordination of woman. It aims at changing the prevalent institutions which have been codified by men and on their behalf, and subsequently resulted in the unjust discrimination between man and woman. Feminists are of the view that the discrimination against women is unfair; they call for putting an end to male domination as well as the exploitation of women. Women 's role should not be confined to childrearing and housekeeping; they ought to participate in the

He is against the predominant view that women are, by nature, inferior to men. He contends that ' '[A]ll women are brought up from the earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite of that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others" (1999, 18- 19). He calls for the emancipation of women from the unjust treatment of men; he believes that women should enjoy equal rights in the social sphere, particularly in marriage. He points