Why is capitalism the cause of sexism?

Long ago, people all over the world lived in small tribes that were constantly engaging in violent struggles with their neighboring tribes for valuable resources. When it became time to go fight, the ones who went to fight were usually the men. Why was this? There were two main reasons. read more

Ronald Kimmons is right about how sexism evolved in pre-capitalist societies, so you cannot blame capitalism for sexism. But I can add that the opposite is actually true. Capitalism created a much more safe and comfortable lifestyle, and since it requires peace, there is a more of a balance between the sexes in terms of population, making polygamy less pragmatic. read more

A socioeconomic answer will not cover all the reasons for sexism. Sexism is as ancient as the whole human race — in fact, it almost certainly predates the human race by millions of years. Gender roles began to differentiate when the human gestation period and the human infancy period began to get longer and longer. read more

To put the explanation in two words: capitalism and patriarchy. Gender inequality exists in the place where rapacious, insatiable, war-­mongering, dead-end global ­capitalism and the 1%-driven, women-hating bastion of ­entrenched patriarchy converge. read more