Mari yo ar skill f nob s <| sep |> Class differences among women are an all but taboo subject . But scholars such as Leslie McCall have found that economic inequality among women is just as large , and has been growing just as fast , as economic inequality among men . This economic divide among women has created one of the most significant fault lines in contemporary feminism . That ' s because professionalclass women , who have reaped a disproportionate share of feminism ' s gains , have dominated the feminist movement , and the social distance between them and their less privileged sisters is wide and growing wider . In the decades since the dawn of the second wave , educated women gained access to highstatus jobs , but workingclass women experienced declining wages and because of the rise of divorce and single parenthood among the working class shouldered an increasingly heavy burden of care . Yet mainstream feminist groups and pundits have consistently stressed the social and cultural issues that are most important to affluent women , while marginalizing the economic concerns of the female masses .