The Glass Ceiling's Creation

"The work of civilization has become increasingly the business of men, it confronts them with ever more difficult tasks and compels them to carry out instinctual sublimations of which women are little capable." (59)

This statement really stuck out to me, especially after taking a sociology class last semester and the discussion we had in class earlier this semester on a few of the issues that women still deal with because of the gender inequality in our society. In this statement, Freud appears to be sexist with his view of women as being little capable. Although he appears to be a bit biased on this issue, he does still mention that this view of women that society now has was not always so, but created by civilization. The first part of this sentence brings up how civilization is increasingly the business of men, not that men were always better than women in society. The inequality that exists in today's society was not always part of society, and maybe one day it will once again not be an issue in society.