• 1. Women do experience unequal treatment. Although they are not segregated by residence, they are victims of prejudice and discrimination.
• 2. Women have physical and cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant group (men).
• 3. Membership in the subordinate group is involuntary.
• 4. Through the rise of contemporary feminism, women have become increasingly aware of their subordinate status and have developed a greater sense of group solidarity.
• 5. Women are not forced to marry, yet many women feel that their subordinate status is most irrevocably defined within marriage.
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