You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Women during the time of Chopin’s story, A Pair of Silk Stockings and the women in The Handmaid’s Tale were suppressed and taken away of their rights. In the past, after a women got married, they were supposed to stay home and take care of the family. In A Pair of Silk Stockings, Mrs. Sommers felt a feeling of importance after she found fifteen dollars. The first things she thought about after the found the money was what she wanted to get for her children. However, in the end, rebelled and descided to do something for herself for once. When she went shopping, she said she hadn’t have the happing feeling of buying things for a long time. 

I feel like the women in The Handmaid’s Tale have even less rights. They have set rules for each of their roles and are prohibited from reading or writing. Men dominate society and women are seen almost as properties of men. Each commander gets a wife, a handmaid and two Marthas. 

I am very thankful to be living in the 21st century in a country where women an men have equal rights. Females get to have the same education and voting rights as the males.