Reading Hegel on Women and Laughing. Hegel against or with Women/Other?

I am going to deal with the problem of the individual in terms of Hegel’s sexism. In paragraph § 166 in the Philosophy of Right (PR, pp. 144–145), it can be observed how Hegel discriminates between men and women. Such discrimination shows us what Hegel means by the concept of the individual. The only individual who can realize himself in his theory of freedom is man. The woman realizes herself and exists only in the family. Hegel states, “In the family the wife has her full substantive place, and in the feeling of family piety realizes her ethical disposition”. Hegel contradicts himself here. On the one hand, he claims that the true realization of the individual is possible only in ethical life within the state; because only in the state, through the right laws, can the individual actualize their freedom. He continues to claim that it is true that individuals cannot complete their existence without the unity of the objective and the subjective. Nevertheless, he limits the woman to just the family, which seems a contradiction of his political and philosophical project. Through the examination of Hegel’s view of women in society, I will demonstrate how Hegel failed to realize his political project for the existence of the individual in the Philosophy of Right and Phenomenology of Spirit: Is Hegel’s philosophy with or against women/other? The woman as the other is necessary for his philosophical project.