A room of one’s own, by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, the author of this chapter, explored on this writing some unfortunate issues those women on the early 1600 had to go through when they wanted to write poems. It is really hard to comprehend how much oppression those women had to face in society. Women were labeled as housewives that had to take care of the children, the house and basically do everything that their husbands asked them to do it. The author also wrote on the chapter about the types of writing that each woman could write.

I was caught up thinking on the artistic talent that some of them had on writing poems and sadly they couldn’t have their writing talent recognized and explored. I think today is much harder to find people that could write so many excellent poems like them. It is also really important to know how women were seeing not only on the early 1600 but on the early ages. This is important because they have been through a lot of oppression under society about everything, such as: how should they dress, being a housewife and not being able to work outside their homes, take care of their children, do anything that their husbands ordered them to do, being independent on their husbands because they didn’t have another choice, among other things.

We can compare how independents women are becoming on today`s society and how society changed the stereotype of women with how much oppression women in the early ages faced. There is a relation between these facts: the main contributors to the result of women's independence and success on today’s society are women that faced the hard oppression, such as, all the women described on the chapter, as well as women on the early ages that have been through a lot and battled to the rights that women could have. Today society is changing, it needs to change a lot more, but as a society we are improving each day more in order to end with gender wage gap. It is great to see women being able to have their rights, working and being successful and independent.