Private and Public Spheres

But some feminists believe there may be something attractive about these traditional gender “virtues” entering the sphere of public life.

Men have been in charge of the public affairs of the world for a long time and have been aggressive towards each other and destructive of the planet. The track record of powerful machiavellian men acting together in groups isn’t good. but whether “female virtues” are innate or socially programmed is not the real issue. it’s time for a pragmatic and not an essentialist approach.

They argue that some of the traditional “female virtues” of cooperation and caring that operate in the “private sphere” should be given a much higher priority in the brutal and ruthless masculine “public sphere”.