Women "becoming" men in the workplace

I also think Engel's Patriarchal Family is excellent in highlighting the ways in which this approach is problematic. Like what many of you said, women's subordination would continue to exist but the form in which this suppression could takes place would look differently. Having said this, encouraging and rewarding women to adopt stereotypical qualities and characteristics of what it means to be a "man" as a way to become successful in the public sphere reinforces these very same qualities as model traits for desirable and worthy workers. More specifically, rewarding women for spending less time from the home would further marginalize or condemn other women who are engaged with housework as unworthy or unreliable workers. A lot of employers are hesitant to provide higher paying positions to women because they assume that the woman will not commit to her career after childbirth. This assumption, again, is rooted in the idea that women are naturally bound to the house, therefore the women will eventually return to her "natural duty". The best way to radicalize the idea where housework is essentially a woman's primary responsibility, is to provide equal amount of paid leave, specifically for child care, for both men and women.