The Treatment of Women: a Study from Shobhaa De’s Sisters

Abstract

In the masculine society, a woman recognises herself unassertive and an object in the society. “This has always been a man’s world... History has shown us that men have always kept in their hands all concrete powers; since the earliest days of the patriarchate they have thought best to keep woman in a state of independence; their codes of law have been set up against her; and thus she has been definitely established as the Other.” (The Second Sex.93-171).

The problems of disparity and prejudice in this patriarchal society, where in the beginning of her life, a girl as a subsidiary, is the property of her father who decides the next man (husband) to control her under his supervision. Hence, she cannot dare to affirm herself as a sovereign being and she cannot speak of her feelings; no man even understands her genuine rights also. Literally speaking, in the man’s society, a woman has to adjust or otherwise to struggle.