What is the purpose of eliminating gender differences?

First of all, Marxism believes that the most fundamental way to achieve gender equality and women’s liberation is to develop productive forces. Marxism believes that the prerequisite for achieving gender equality is the elimination of women's economic dependence on men. Engels took this as a starting point and put forward three conditions for women's liberation: "The first prerequisite for women's liberation is that all women return to public service" so that women are no longer economically dependent on men; The second prerequisite for liberation is to rely on modern large-scale industry. Only in a highly developed industrialized society can women be truly liberated. Only in large-scale industry can women's physical weakness not become an obstacle. The third prerequisite It is the socialization of housework, that is, "private housework becomes a social undertaking." These three conditions ultimately depend on the development of productive forces.

Secondly, under the conditions of sufficient productivity, systematic change is the only way for women's liberation. Marx proposed proletarian revolution as the way to liberate women. In capitalist society, modern large-scale industry has developed. Production is no longer based on pure physical labor. The division of labor between the sexes based on physiological differences is no longer very obvious. Large-scale industry has provided conditions for women's liberation. To make this It may become a reality, but the prerequisite is to implement political changes and overthrow private ownership.

Finally, implementing changes in the field of cultural concepts is an important way to achieve gender equality and women’s liberation. Marxism sees domination and oppression as a superstructure built on an economic foundation. Eliminating domination and oppression requires not only "the most complete break with traditional ownership relations" but also "the most complete break with traditional concepts." After social and economic changes, women's final liberation has become more of an ideological struggle, and this ideological struggle will be arduous and long-term. In short, social gender theory provides a new analytical perspective and method for our research, allowing us to re-examine gender equality and marriage ethics from the perspective of "sexual people". In particular, the conclusive results obtained by combining feminism and Marxism: the goal of eliminating unreasonable gender differences is to achieve true equality between men and women; on the basis of developing productivity, gender equality can be achieved through changes in systems and concepts, and The reasonable orientation and construction of the development of marriage ethics are of great significance.