Women are mostly suppressed in the Handmaid's Tale. Women are mainly looked at to give birth and do the stereotypical roles women held in the past. When the new power takes over women are fired from their jobs and their bank accounts are wiped. The course of these actions was justified by saying it had to do with tradition and not actually taking the women's rights away that they already had. Women are not allowed to dress the way they want or even allowed to read. They are not allowed to read so sooner or later the past is forgotten and rebellion is less provoked. The women really can't go anywhere without being supervised and they can only do select things even when they are being watched. Women are forced to sleep with people which could
