Before any equal rights for women had been around, they were treated as if they Club” does not want to be with a girl that people think of as poor, so he tells her to “tell people you’re from the well-known Barakat family and that your father was a judge” were a maid, slave or servant by the men. The husband in “Another Evening at the (Rifaat, 1983, p.257). “The Leaving” gives a similar read when the father states to the wife, “How come my supper’s not ready, women?” (wilson, 1990, p.3). This explains how the man expects a dinner ready and made by the wife even though he is at home and has the time to make dinner.the way the women were treated and what was expected out of them was disrespectful and shows how the rights were not as fair as
