By word emancipation I mean proverbial “freedom”, freedom against anything visible or invisible that can restrict her ability to exercise her will and intent. I don’t want to go as deep as her ingrained “bias” that may hold her to exercise her will.
Historically men has assumed responsibility to earn livelihood not because of his intellectual ability to coin better means but because of his physical dexterity to do jobs that require more strength than skill, modern social system has inherited bifurcation of the responsibilities owing to the unique features and requirements inbred into the gender system. Although things have changed a lot from medieval age to dawn of this century yet physical dexterity is still heavy among the factors that are decisive in assumption of a social position around many societies and cultures.
Let’s jump back to the basics of dollar dream, money has become a symbol of strength, one who earns has the authority to decide, a decision from dispensing what has been earned to a decision of manifesting or reflecting hegemony over vital decisions. How real is her ability to exercise this right after she assumes the role of an “earner”?
Marriage is a social contract that does not change the dynamics of responsibilities owing to ones gender, it however offers the contracting partner to wear another hat besides what gender may dictate. Ethics of a specific religion may give a social system a particular look yet the basics of a family system are rather unaffected.