Inequalities of women

“ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a fellow of the college or furnished with a letter of introduction.” This quote was found in Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of one’s own”. The quote describes the unfair treatment women received. On one occasion, Woolf desires to take a look at a manuscript in the library at the University of Oxbridge. Yet she was stopped and told the following mentioned above. This becomes a problem, and Woolf has no choice but to wait outside, feeling bothered by her limitations. In “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir, one particular quote states “men use them (women) as a pretext for increasing the misery of the feminine lot still further, for instance by refusing to grant women any right to sexual pleasure, by making her work like a beast of burden.” This quote implies that men dominate women. The men call women “the other” which takes away their dignity. Women are considered objects in this passage, there for men’s sexual desires. These passages compare because both illustrate the unhappiness of women, due to their inequalities. “The Second Sex” states that men are significant, while women are insignificant. These problems have to do with literature because these ideologies were enforced in different writings, and throughout history. “Only in work can she achieve autonomy, if women can support themselves, she can achieve a form of liberation.” This was considered a solution. Yet it is not plausible, because some women did not or could not support themselves, but had the right to equality. Working together, proving that they deserved the same rights as men, by speaking on their opinions, acting on what they say, seems like a more plausible solution. After all, the inequality of women was very effective in the past, yet as a result of the women protesting in feminist movements, and many other efforts they made, women were granted the rights they deserved.