On a lay man’s perspective, the woman is referred and discriminately categorized just as a subordinate to the community and family. The subordination of women in the is identified to result from sociological relations and the perception that men have the distinct efforts to get their needs and demands to control a woman in their labor, sexual needs and faculties, but not much according to their disposition biologically. Men are believed to be strong, leaders by default and worth every supremacy against women regardless of a woman’s intellectual, sociological, intellectual, or emotional ability. Ultimately there exists a phenomena inclined with sexual morality of women which advocates for women second place in the family, punishment, and a must-submissiveness to men. This piece of work aims at describing the subordinate status of women under capitalism as described by Vogel and other Feminist Theorists in Smith (Vogel, 2013).
Women are oppressed and taken as subordinates in many occasions. Vogel and other Feminist Theorists argue that if in any case value is produced out of labor power, then the labor power must have some distinct origin. They underline that, labor power is the key to any system, capitalist or not, and is in the real sense produced and reproduced some way far outside the capitalist production from a “kin-oriented” unit and somewhat reproduction site referred to as the family. As much as women are taken to be just good enough for reproduction and taking kin of the fruits of their womb as capitalists (men) reap fat from their labor, they are the core of the system for workers don’t just spring off the ground ready and fresh for the capitalist system (Vogel, 2013).
According to Vogel, there by default exists some relationship between class struggle and the oppression of women. Class struggle over production conditions stands for the core social development dynamic in populations and societies that exploit women. In such communities, the surplus labor is gauged by the dominating capitalist class with the most essential production condition being the renewal of a subordinated class which is the direct engine to the labor needed for the system. For there to be some much needed continuity and consistency of that labor, Vogel argues that it is the undermined reproductive role of the woman that is called to action to replenish the labor with new workers thus women must be respected and recognized for their pivotal and critical role (Vogel, 2013).
Vogel with other Feminist Theories argue that women are socially very productive and vital for the maintenance of that capitalist system. According to them, women are the core to the production and reproduction in the economic systems. Women take part in both domestic and social labor to keep the economy consistent and in continuity. They therefore strongly argue that housewives and workers at home must be considered as vital parts of the economic labor force and drivers, producing some integral value for capital, and consequently worth every accolade, recognition possible and salary/wages for their social and house work (Vogel, 2013).
In conclusion, Vogel among other Feminist Theorists identify the woman as a vital part of the labor force. They highlight women as responsible for the production and reproduction of the much needed labor for the economic system to run successfully. They therefore argue that women must be recognized and duly paid for their ‘oppressed’ social and house labor input to the overall economic system which turns out to be the engine and core for house/domestic and social labor/reproduction is the vibrant heart to refreshed ad replenished labor power for capitalist production. According to Vogel, child birth and lactation is not just a social reproduction role or a family form but a provision of labor force, something that should be paid for (Vogel, 2013).
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