Explain the link between feminism and socialism

Feminism originated within the suffragette movement of the 19th century as an ideology that sought to recognise and eliminate inequality between the sexes recognising gender as the most important social division. However in the second half of the 20th century some feminists chose to reject liberal feminists ideal of eradicating female disadvantages within society through equal rights. Instead they have linked feminism to socialism in that socialists feminists, marxist feminists and neo-marxist feminists interlink the importance of gender with the importance of class.
Socialist feminist can be linked to socialism because they view patriarchy as a system of oppression rooted in both class and gender, the former of which for socialist is the most important social division. Engles in particular argued that the position of women in society had become oppressive with the development of private property in that prior to it family life was more communistic or rooted in ‘mother right’ where inheritance came from the female line. However, capitalism transformed this as monogamous relationship and the ‘bourgeoise family’ kept private property within the male bloodline. Therefore, for true emancipation to occur a social revolution or the gaining of class consciousness must occur to challenge the status quo and overrun what socialist feminists consider the ‘world historical defeat of the female sex”. They can further be linked to socialist core theme of community as some argue for a nuclear family to be related by communal living and ‘free love’ as advocated by Owen and Fourier. In particular, they are linked with evolutionary socialist in that they advocate for gradualism rather than revolution but one of a sexual nature rather than a class one.