ABSTRACT
The conflict of dissimilarities had another form in which women’s sexuality and procreative ability, the real sex difference, created its raison d’être. The ‘dysfunctional’ effects of modern society on sexual mores, family life and work and fertility rates were not, in the beginning, supposed to be political questions at all. Yet, it is in this area that the rationale of modern welfare states operates. Slowly the question of state responsibility for the inhabitants of the country began to form a political demand within liberal and socialist parties until it became the core of a welfare state.2
