Where sexism continues to undermine efforts to make society fair for all women and children, feminist issues will continue to influence the way we all approach our personal, family and professional lives. Modern feminists ask how women can have equal access to high-prestige work and receive equal pay and benefits for equal work alongside men. They also ask how children associated with single-working mothers can be protected from needless deprivation, and these question are clearly poignant today. In politics, the facts speak for themselves. Two out of every 100 senators are women, though women make up 52 percent of the population.
Woman are dramatically under represented in all sectors of public and political life.
In the family, the facts speak for themselves. In a household where both parents work, fathers in the past decade have averaged two hours of housework per week, though mothers have averaged 35. Modern feminists challenge the family patriarchy that makes it normal for one partner to do all the household work and child care when both parents work outside the home. The family is the root of one s development, and sexism manifested as a patriarchal division of household labor or as ready-made roles for the sexes permeate the minds of children. Modern feminists challenge deep-rooted arbitrary notions such as these, which serve only to stifle the potential of over half of the population, with negative effects upon children in particular.