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Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) Was a Feminist Political Philosopher and Author

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Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) was a feminist political philosopher and author, teaching at several universities including the University of Auckland, Brandeis, Harvard, and Stanford. She contends that traditional theories are based on the assumption that there is a wall of separation between private and public life and that only public life is the proper concern of political theory. But women have largely been relegated to the private sphere, where issues of rights and equality are not supposed to apply. Consequently, women have been left out of traditional theories of justice, an omission that ensured women would not be treated as the moral equals of men.
-According to Okin, the fact that women are doing more paid work does not imply that


A) they are unequal.
B) they are more equal.
C) equality has not been achieved.
D) the political system is maturing.

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