Liberal feminism

• Oakley

  Gender role socialisation occurs through canalisation and manipulation where sanctions are used to reinforce behaviour.
• Sommerville

  New policies are needed to help working parents as working hours and culture are incompatible with family life.
• Functionalists criticise liberal feminists for failing to recognise that gender inequality is functional and necessary for society. Gender inequality is due to role allocation and a lack of merit, not patriarchy.
• Marxists and radical feminists criticise liberal feminism as it is too limited to free women from oppression.