Sheryl Sandberg had once stated that “In the future there will be no female leaders. There will only be leaders.” Since the beginning of mankind woman have always been depicted as lesser to men, but over the last few centuries equal right have become a much larger issue. However in the late 19 century when the novel of A Picture Of Dorian Grey takes place women were considered far less equivalent to men.
In this novel by Oscar Wilde He shows multiple times how all the men in this time period are rude, and disrespectful to women. Oscar Wilde once stated in a novel that “A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions.”