Handmaid's Tale Women

3 All throughout history women and men have been seen differently. Men have always been seen as strong, smart, tough, and natural leaders. Women have been seen as weak, timid, nurturing, and always following a man’s lead. As you can tell they are very different. Less than 100 years ago women didn’t have rights in America. They weren’t allowed to vote, own property, or pretty much do anything without a man’s approval. The group “ United Society of Believers in Christ second coming” were adovocating for women’s rights a century and a half before women had the right to vote, according to news wise .com. Only four countries have completely achieved gender equality, that’s four in 135. In most countries crimes against women go more unnoticed than crimes against men. It is believed because women are attacked more than men that it desenstizes people. Just like in the Handmaid’s Tale when the had the salvageings people weren’t shocked when it happened because it happened alot. In the book women had nothing and had to ask to do anything, if they disobeyed orders they were at the mercy of their commander
They can’t vote or preticapate in goverment which is like alot of places in the world still today. Women can’t have property in the book, women were just allowed to hold property in America less than 100 years ago. Yet men can do all these things and have always been allowed to do so. It is because they are seen as strong and intimidating and women are always seen as meek and timid. In all reality we are all the same. Women are property in the book, in history women were used as property and sold to their husbands by their fathers. Sometimes they werent even sold but traded for live stock. Not anywhere in history has a man been treated like that, sold or traded by their mothers. Sometimes they didnt even trade the girl was arranged for her husband. Which is like how the handmaids are arranged for their