esses labour unions are critical social institutions because men control the labour market and womens work. Both historically and at present there is no doubt that one of the most central arenas of gender struggles outside the home. Womens repeat failures and inferior position within unions must finally be seen as a consequence rather than a high rank positon to society.Backlash is primarily a reactive position which means to have been lost, or to be under threat. The old fashioned thinking feel threatened with change of sex roles especially in power reations. Some backlash is regressive. It returns to golden age of traditional sex roles and sexual values. It is said that feminists are the blame to life getting worse. Another kind of backlash is reactive. It is agreed that there was a problem before womens movement for women but their policies have made things worse.As Kenneth Minogue said:The first wave of feminism was rightly about equal opportunity. Women rightly demands to be admitted on their individual merits ot the activities men had previously monopolised-politics, higher education, the professions and so on. Theres no doubt this created considerable problems about how to combine female aspirations, conventions, even dress, with what was necessary to be one of the boys. One unfortunate result of this development, however, was that it slanted aspirations away from those areas where women had previously excelled - style, grace, domesticity, the cultivation of intimacey-towards activities where male strength and competitiveness gave men an advantage (Haste 268). Unfortunately such reactive critics failed to ppreciate the difficulties of fighting those very past battles....
