Gender Discrimination In The Handmaid's Tale

Moreover, along with how Anthony’s quote which states that men’s rights are nothing more and women’s rights are nothing less can be related to Atwood’s novel titled The Handmaid’s Tale as well as through my personal life, it can also be seen through global issues. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the word global is defined as ‘‘involving the entire world’’ (www.merriam-webster.com). In other words, global means to include the entire world in a situation. Thus, global issues are different situations that affect the whole world. This can be seen through gender discrimination. Gender discrimination that exists contradicts Anthony’s quote. According to the National Association of Japanese Canadian’s website, gender discrimination …show more content…
Another main form of discrimination towards women can be seen through the fact that owners do not want to hire them since they believe that one day a woman may get pregnant and may have to take a maternity leave to take care of her child. In different countries, women are not permitted to work in the same areas as men (www.canadianlabourrelations.com). According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, women who work more than sixty hours a week are only paid seventy-eight percent of what male employees receive as their pay. Thus, this demonstrates gender discrimination since women are paid much less than men for the same work. Therefore, men and women are not equal which also represents the opposite of Anthony's quote. Finally, this concludes how Anthony’s quote can be seen as a contradictory quote towards Atwood’s novel titled The Handmaid’s Tale. It also concludes how it can be related to my personal life through a sport called cheerleading and lastly, it can be seen as an opposite quote towards global events such as gender discrimination in Saudi Arabia and in work