The Contrast of Women Today, and in a Thousand Splendid Suns

       For centuries now, women have pretty much always been treated differently than men in society. Luckily though, times have changed. Today, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, women are much more independent than they used to be. Times and times ago women were expected to just be housewives. They would take care of the children, the cooking, and the cleaning. The men would go out and work to make a living while the women stayed at home caring for the family. Society has drastically changed since centuries okay. This change has been for the better. It is now common for women to further their education and study at universities. Women have really paved a new path for themselves. No longer is the cookie cutter image of a woman depicted as a housewife. Today is is very common to women be successful business owners and hold well to do jobs that help to keep society in tact. Many many years ago, women wouldn't have dared tried to hold a job. Women still face the challenge of being put down to men, but it isn't as awful as it used to be. Women may not make as much as certain men do, but they still are successful career women. Most women today aren't just mothers, but they are working mother who take care of the family and hold a successful job as well.

     Luckily the society of Kenosha treats women in this respectful manner. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, women are not depicted in a positive light. Women in fact are extremely inferior to men. Mariam and Laila are two of the main women characters in this novel and they aren't given any freedoms. It doesn't have to be like that, but that's just how it is in Afghanistan during the throughout the 1960s all the way to 2003. During this time period women were sheltered. They were kept inside to take care of the basic household chores and to watch after the children. Women were often covered up whenever they went out in public too. It was common for a husband to demand his wife to wear a burqa whenever she stepped foot in public. Men took complete control over their wives. Women were treaty like property, not as normal human beings. It is very said to think that women were treated in such a demeanor and still are treated in such a way. Women are constantly facing challenges in the Afghanistan society. They don't have special privileges. All they really have is the ability to either follow orders from their husband, or be left to pretty much die alone. Women don't have a voice in Afghanistan. If they did, things wouldn't be so unfair.