Susan Okin's Analysis

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Susan Okin argues that public sphere as well as private sphere are both relevant when talking about power, fairness and justice. Men are dominant in public sphere; where they rule and govern, but their self -interests are somehow restricted by the laws of the society. On the other hand, an individual family setting also constitute of a patriarchal society. Where men show dominance over women (wife, mother or sister), makes decisions for them sometimes even against their will. Okin is totally against this and demands for equal rights for the role of women in both public and private sphere “It is clear that the structure of the family and the distribution of roles and responsibilities within it must be significantly altered in any theory in which