Is the social stratification theory gender-blind? Elucidate. (Answer in 150 words)

- Is the social stratification theory gender-blind? Elucidate. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Classical stratification theory was less blind to gender than uninterested in it.

Body

1. What the charge amounts to: That ranking was theorised with the household as unit and the man as its head, so a woman's position was read off her husband's and gender never appeared as an axis of inequality.

2. The case that it is: Marx made class a relation to production, leaving unpaid domestic labour out. Davis and Moore ranked positions by functional importance without asking who was eligible. Goldthorpe defended the family as the unit of class analysis, which Stanworth attacked for making married women invisible.

3. The case that it no longer is: Weber's status honour and Walby's Theorising Patriarchy give gender structures of its own. Leela Dube showed caste reproduced through control over women's marriage and sexuality, and Sharmila Rege's Dalit feminist standpoint refused to rank caste above gender.

4. A plain answer: The classical theory was gender-blind; the field is not, though class schemes still travel by household.

Conclusion
Gender is not an addition to stratification but an axis of it.