Marxist

• Castles and Kosack

  Reserved army of labour - married women are often discharged from employment back into the home in an economic recession, yet they function as a reserve pool of labour, being drawn on in boom periods
• Engels

  Inheritence of property - women became oppressed when private property was introduced. Men wanted to pass wealth to their own children, so they controlled women through marriage and inheritance. Engels argues that once private property and capitalism is abolished then women can achieve true equality
• Feeley

  Family teaches children to submit to patriarchal authority, preparing them to accept their place in capitalist Hierarchy
• Dalla costa and James

  Women are not paid for their domestic labour which maintains the workforce. So, Capitalism keeps thriving