Many Ponder over the idea if men and women were equal in the book Brave New World. We are faced with an image of what might be the representation of what might be true gender equality. After careful analysis of the story, and applying my real word knowledge as well as seeing first hand of the story’s idea is of what “gender equality” it is easy to see passed the illusion.
Brave New World may give the illusion of gender equality. As far as their are no traditional roles women are stereotyped for. In this world marriage does not exist, completely abolished coming from the fact that they didn’t believe in just being with one person. No more having the food ready for your male partner when he gets back from work, in fact cooking was never mentioned in the novel, not even a time where any of them were eating at all. Cleaning houses? Who needs to do that when as Lenina says when John tried to offer his help by sweeping her floor and her response was “But they are vacuum cleaners… and Epsilon Semi-Morons to work them.” Women didn’t have to worry of their image being a housewives because in this society it was completely abolished, this society was purely founded on scientific principles.
Brave New World you are faced with a new society that no longer requires female traditional roles such as cleaning, cooking, and most
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Unfortunately we still have some gender inequality issues almost as common as the brave new world society. As I said, in the novel there wasn’t superiors who were women and in my society it isn’t any different, we have yet to experience a women becoming a president. In both of our societies we are looked as sex objects not for the same reason but they both lead to it; My society’s reason is how women are often looked at as sex objects because of the attire and just even the fact that much as the men do. Women aren’t viewed as highly and as great as the men do in both