Gender Inequality

          Every book we read that focuses on the inequality of the treatment of women makes me so much more thankful to be a woman in today’s time period. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is another book we read that exposed how poorly women were treated. Woolf focused her essay about how women were treated unequally compared to men when writing fiction, but beyond just writing, her essay demonstrates how women were considered inferior to men just in general back in her day.

Often times when women wrote, women would “preach” about the inequalities between the two genders. Instead of society actually reading and listening to the real discrimination's of the world so the problems could be fixed, no one would give the book a chance. If a woman wrote a book it was automatically deemed “unworthy” to be read since “a woman wrote it.” Woolf showed in her essay how unfair women were treated when writing literature. Aside from just in literature, women were treated unfairly and were dehumanized compared to men just in everyday life. Women were thought of as housewives and nothing more. Women had very little to no chance to be successful during Woolf’s era, unlike men. 

Thankfully, the world has evolved and accepted women’s writing and their success. Today if a woman is an author, people are willing to read the book and usually do not judge the work due to the gender of the author. Both women and men read a work of literature written by women now. Women authors are just as successful as men when writing literature as proven by J.K Rowling, Danielle Steele, Stephanie Myer, Alice Walker and many others. Not only have women advanced in writing, but we also have the ability to excel in any area we want to. Women, today, are given about just as many opportunities as men are. Women are successful and close to equal to men. Of course there will always be injustices in our society, but I am so thankful for how far our society has evolved and am so appreciative to be a woman in today’s society where women aren’t inferior to men any more.