By recognising that politics is a science not only
             of the public realm but also of the private, feminism
             shows itself to be an ideology that challenges
             conventional thought. As the question rightly states, it
             is feminists imparticular that oppose the division but
             this view has influenced many others to think in such a
             way about the public and private. In short, feminists
             believe that the plight of women can only be eased if the
             private sphere is opened up to political debate.
             Feminists have stated on numerous occasions that the
             main way in which they are oppressed is within the
             private sphere. It is thought that men are able to stunt
             the progress of women through psycologically degrading
             them in the home. By doing this, in the private realm,
             women do not have the confidence (or permission) to
             perform a role in the public realm. Feminists argue that
             wife-beating and rape within the home are common ways of
             degrading women. The current division we have between the
             public and private means that the state is powerless to
             address the issue, seeing as it is an issue outside the
             public sphere. Political intervention is essential for
             this issue, hence the division needs to disappear.
             It should be noted also that this hypothesis applies
             to any weak groups within society, such as the disabled,
             Feminists also oppose the division between public
             and private because of men's domination in the public
             sphere. All state institutions in the UK are inhabited
             overwhealmingly by men; the House of Commons has less
             than a sixth of its members that are female. Art and
             literature are still male-orientated disciplines. The
             point is that when there is a time (like now) where
             women are equal in name to men, it has very little
             meaning to women as they are equal only in a male
             designed world. The Greek playwright Euripides once
             suggested that women would only be equal when they have
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