Fourier advocated the equality of women in a socialist community.
Pioneer of socialist thought, Charles Fourier (17720-1837), spoke out against the unfairness of the bourgeois structure of the family that was in place. He said, for instance, "<span>Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a result of the diminution of the liberty of women."
Fourier's proposed system abolished the traditional family structure for a communal society in which love was shared freely and children were raised collectively by the group. </span>
