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Conflict Theory on Gender

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Conflict theorists treat gender as a struggle over scarce resources in which men hold the dominant position and set the rules for success.

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Engels compared the household to the labor market, describing women's dependence on a male wage as resembling a worker's dependence on an employer.

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The claim concerns structural dominance, and it does not require that individual men intend to dominate.