Charlotte Perkins Gilman Feminism

Feminism, the term that was brought into the political light, before the first World War, expressing both the traditional and modern desires of women: the right to vote and an improvement on their economic opportunities, and reproductive choices. Women, had been placed in a society were they played the role of being a servant to their husbands, holding no freedom. Charlotte Perkins Gilman had written Women and Economics, discusses the increasing number of younger women who desired a career, showing the change of both economic and family life. She argued that women had felt oppressed by being a housewife and that they were unproductive. By subjecting women to gender norms, they have a limited ability to contribute to society and enjoy their

The wives would suffer the most, because the husband and child would receive the limited amount of food. The women would eat the least, had inadequate clothing, and worked all hours, even in the factory to contribute to their husbands’ income. The husband had working hours that were restricted by law and workers unions, while the wife had to work countless hours. Women did not have the same privilege men had: a law protecting women from being overworked. Women were being overworked and

While the husbands were in college, getting educated, college, women increased the birthing rate to five (5) to six (6) children. The women no longer worried about their careers, but focused on motherhood. Women were equals to their husbands and they found their place, being a housewife, being so proud of it to place it as their occupation. Women, all over the world, had thought that the suburban life was the dream life. The problem that had no name, was that women did not want to be housewives anymore because they felt empty being a wife and mother, they wanted something more, a