Women In Paula Treichler's The Yellow Wallpaper

The Relation of the “Real Meaning” of Yellow Wallpaper to Feminism
Female discrimination has been and still is a big challenge in different countries across the world. In such countries, women have been prohibited from participating in various activities like occupying top leadership positions in either government or non-government owned companies or by actively participating in politics. To ensure that there are fewer women in such positions, men holding powerful positions in government and public level have come up with policies that promote the early marriage of women leading to decreased numbers of females in schools (Payne 20). This action promotes illiteracy amongst women, making it extremely hard for them to stand up and defend themselves. That has for many years made women feel neglected and have been subjected to
Nonetheless, in the recent years, there has been an increase in advocacy by various groups and organizations, trying to push for equal treatment of humanity in society, without discriminations based on gender. That is known as, feminism, which is the advocacy of women’s rights by equality of men and females (Payne 25). Different people have written books, articles and poems to try to advocate for gender equality. For instance, in Paula Treichler's paper "Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in The Yellow Wallpaper,” the yellow wallpaper is a symbol representing (amid other things) the "outline" which triggers sexual inequality in the society. Here, women are portrayed as vulnerable creatures that are suffering at the hands of cruel men, who want to exploit them for their personal gains. Paula Treichler sees “yellow wallpaper” as a term that describes the discrimination against women that exists in the society and hence the term is related to feminism