Response to The Yellow Wallpaper

Women's conditions at this time were atrocious. They were treated as subservient and kept down by their male counterparts and it was believed that their place in the world was as caregivers and homemakers. Those women that did work, worked terrible, usually dangerous, jobs that paid far less than what a male would be paid for the exact same position. Women were also not deemed as smart as men, for it was believed that women didn't have the brainpower or ability to reason. This was one of the reasons that women we're not allowed to vote until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. After a while this can take a very hard physical, emotional, and mental toll on a person as we saw in The Yellow Wallpaper.