The correlation between the roles of women provided within Gilead, compared to our current era within the United States, demonstrates how women are considered less superior in our society in an effort to maintain an efficiently working government needed for repopulation. The women of the Gilead era, compared to the women of the United States today seem that they are only needed for repopulation and caring for the growth of future generations for Gilead. They have no jobs, mainly no rights, and they have no type of realistic social freedom. They live in fear of being disgraced, kicked out, or even killed within their new current society. Today in the USA, even though they have a disadvantage compared to their sexual counterparts, women of the …show more content…
In the United States, society has organized its citizens based on their economic standing in which they formed three separate classes to distinguished themselves, the upper, middle and lower. Women in each class, besides the wealth they have accumulated, all have the same roles, taking care of the family, but it goes in much depth than that tot the power of how far their wealth can use. Women of upper class society can have more opportunities to do what they can do with less obstacles because of their access to wealth can help them go far, compared to women of the two lower class, especially of their difference of races. In the past, the United States were segregated its citizens by the color of their skins, which limit the benefits each race can have. In our cases, women of color had harder struggles than white women, especially when it comes to competing in the working world, in a sense that in order to provide for their family, women have to work more, strive more, to be seen as something in their society. Women are also discriminated in this world; because they are simply women living in a man’s world, where they are considered to be inferior with their low wages as well as their disadvantages at their work place. Discrimination like this, led to the creation of the concept called feminism, in which women fight and protest against the laws of society so they can live their own lives, rather the laws that were already set for