Capitalism is an important aspect of analyzing gender inequality because the wage gap between women and men is a major factor of societal inequality between the genders. Women earn less than men with comparable education and experience levels in the same position, and often have fewer opportunities to advance in company hierarchies. However, capitalism may not be a sufficient method of examining gender inequality, because women experience social inequality in addition to economic exploitation. Theorists who discuss gender point to many issues affecting women that are not related to economic position, such as domestic violence and harassment from men. While factors such as this are unrelated to the wage gap, they are still societal problems that impact women. An analysis of gender in capitalism would explain how gender inequality is manifested in employment, but it would fail to understand misogyny as a social phenomenon.
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