Manifestations of Power
Karl Marx shows us that capitalism assesses the value of people according to their value to the market and the wealth they own. People who are worth more are invested with power and thus dictate many societal terms such as the use of wealth and production. Those who actually produce the materials necessary (and unnecessary) to life are placed in the background of the capitalist, whom it is always assumed has legitimately earned his wealth, and deserves to be in a position of arbitrary power. "Work" is defined as paid labor which is why the unpaid labor of women is often overlooked in Marxist analysis.
Society clearly places unequal value on the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Entrepreneurs are praised as being innovative, progressive, and hard working while people who go looking for existing jobs are seen as lazy and lacking initiative. This attitude is seen in popular rags to riches stories and books like Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Women's work, because it is unpaid, is devalued from its real worth as the central industry of society itself. The roles of worker/capitalist have become categories in which to organize people; it is assumed that everyone fits neatly into one of these categories. Capitalism becomes naturalized. The need for owners at all is not questioned, and a profit over people attitude is a legal, acceptable way of going about things. It is normal for 5% of the population to own 95% of the wealth and it is normal for workers to be exploited. Because of the dualistic nature of the capitalist/worker dichotomy, workers are devalued and feminized.
Capitalism informs our lives as gendered beings in large part through the segregation of labor. What is considered a woman's or a man's job and how people are compensated for their labor is largely dictated by gender. How much things cost us and how much we work are also affected by gender, as is a person's potential for class mobility. The overwhelming majority of capitalists are men, and women workers are concentrated in bottom of the barrel, aptly named "pink collar" jobs in addition to their unpaid labor as wives and mothers. A woman may not be hired for a job because she is "too feminine" or not feminine enough, and she may be fired on the basis of her gender as well. In her book, Feminist Politics, Judith Lorber cites a particularly revealing statistic: women do 2/3rds of the worlds work, earn 10% of its income, and own 1% of its property. Global capitalism has successfully arranged a system where women's labor in particular is exploited.