Why have been excluded from liberal individualism? If women were indeed capable only of mothering, why does society take the pains of forcing them into marriage and motherhood by foreclosing them all other options?
Put differently, the current social order mirror not any natural talents or propensities of women but only the vested interests of men.
Taylor entertains a highly individualistic point of view insofar as she holds that only the individual in question is capable of deciding what is best for him or her β this is especially true of women, who have been denied liberty of choice for ages.
In this regard, Taylor also touches on an aspect political economists including her second husband, John Stuart Mill have addressed only with hesitation: the question of how to balance individual rights with social obligations.
To ensure such a fundamentally unjust social order, physical force was only the initial β but far from the only β means that men have used.
