Marxist Feminism

I think that the best ideas for feminism and equality for women come from the Marxist Feminist. This is evident in the way that women are treated in the workplace today. It is certainly no secret that women experience unfair amount of pay when compared to a man for doing the same exact job. This is really the story of capitalism. In capitalism, the rate of pay is really never fair, no matter who is competing, or has the same job. With Marxism, women would be treated the same exact way as men in the workplace, regardless of job title or job in general. Everyone would be getting the same pay. I feel as though this would lead to a lot of the problems that feminism in general has today to disappear. Also, I believe women are held in the domestic house hold as a direct result of this unfair pay rate. Let's say the man of the house can go out and get paid 20$ an hour to do construction work. A women can go out and get paid 16-18$ an hour. It makes no sense to send the women out to the work place to make less money than the man if one of the two have to stay home to care for children. This division is an obvious reason for why women are kept in the home today. Also, with Marxism, the domestic work that a women would do would become public. ie, the women would be able to get paid to do what they are already doing basically for free. (Free as in material monetary value) This would most definately bring the women's status up to the men's in a lot of cases, and may even make many men decide to stay home and do domestic work and let the women go out in the work environment.

I still don't understand the critique in how a revolution would not make men and women equal. I feel as though a revolution is a revolution because, after the revolution takes place, the new leaders in society are able to shape their new society in any way they please. Does this mean that it is so ingrained into the male/female psyche that men would ultimately tell the women that, "No you really aren't equal to us."? I'm really not so sure.

The only real critique of Marxist Feminism is that Marxism really just can't work in general. The human greed factor, the want for power, etc., is the reason that this form of government would never work, and thus, men and women could never gain equality through these means.