Women confined to the male-created world remain in an infantile condition.

Evidence

This is also the situation of women in many civilizations; they can only submit to the laws, the gods, the customs, and the truths created by the males. Even today in western countries, among women who have not had in their work an apprenticeship of freedom, there are still many who take shelter in the shadow of men; they adopt without discussion the opinions and values recognized by their husband or their lover, and that allows them to develop childish qualities which are forbidden to adults because they are based on a feeling of irresponsibility. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 33

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Beauvoir’s claim that the ‘apprenticeship of freedom’ comes through work is a key mechanism: only productive agency breaks the infantile ceiling.

Related

• Woman is a historical situation, not an immutable essence (similarity 0.79)
• Some adults live in an infantile world of imposed, unquestioned values. (similarity 0.79)