“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal…” When George Washington, John Adams and the rest of our founding fathers inked this in to the Declaration of Independence they most certainly meant men and not their counterpart women. The mistreatment of women in our world has to be one of the most blatant issues with our modern society. In the United States every dollar a man earns a woman receives $0.72. Oppression: the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment of a culture or group. In the late 1800s the oppression of was even more obvious than it is now. Men made money and decisions for the household while women cooked and cleaned. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a doctor’s wife stuck
