Gender Roles In Persepolis
Gender & Occupation
Gender roles differed significantly between men and women. Men had the ability to work in an region they liked while women were not allowed to work. In Paronnaud’s “Persepolis”, men were at liberty to find work and enroll in different locations where they would earn money for their families. In contrast, women were not allowed to work following the coming of stricter laws. When Marjane returns home, she was advised that should she be asked what she does all day, she was to say that she prays all day. Women were not only barred from working, but also followed up closely to ensure that they do not go against this directive. Those found guilty of breaking that law were either incarcerated or executed.
Similarly, women in Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” were barred from working in sectors that would earn them income. On the contrary, women worked as servants and slaves with men being their masters and despots. Men used women as sex slaves. Actually, men had the right to rape women and impregnate them. No fertile women had a right to refuse a man’s sexual advances, whether they like them or not. The elite men in the society …show more content…
Men’s role was to impregnate any fertile woman to sire more babies. As long as a woman was deemed fertile, it was her responsibility to sire as many babies as possible. Principally, the woman had no right to deny any man the chance to sire a baby. A pregnant woman received special attention, not because she was a woman, but rather because of the baby she was carrying. In Episode 6 of the story entitled “A Woman’s Place”, Offred’s friends blatantly state that they are only interested in fertile women. The pregnancy in a woman appeared to give her a slight edge over other women for the duration of the pregnancy, but after childbirth, she most likely reverted back to her derelict role in the society. Women were treated worse than children in this
Gender roles differed significantly between men and women. Men had the ability to work in an region they liked while women were not allowed to work. In Paronnaud’s “Persepolis”, men were at liberty to find work and enroll in different locations where they would earn money for their families. In contrast, women were not allowed to work following the coming of stricter laws. When Marjane returns home, she was advised that should she be asked what she does all day, she was to say that she prays all day. Women were not only barred from working, but also followed up closely to ensure that they do not go against this directive. Those found guilty of breaking that law were either incarcerated or executed.
Similarly, women in Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” were barred from working in sectors that would earn them income. On the contrary, women worked as servants and slaves with men being their masters and despots. Men used women as sex slaves. Actually, men had the right to rape women and impregnate them. No fertile women had a right to refuse a man’s sexual advances, whether they like them or not. The elite men in the society …show more content…
Men’s role was to impregnate any fertile woman to sire more babies. As long as a woman was deemed fertile, it was her responsibility to sire as many babies as possible. Principally, the woman had no right to deny any man the chance to sire a baby. A pregnant woman received special attention, not because she was a woman, but rather because of the baby she was carrying. In Episode 6 of the story entitled “A Woman’s Place”, Offred’s friends blatantly state that they are only interested in fertile women. The pregnancy in a woman appeared to give her a slight edge over other women for the duration of the pregnancy, but after childbirth, she most likely reverted back to her derelict role in the society. Women were treated worse than children in this