It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
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