Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Obstacles To Freedom For Women

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman believes that the main obstacles to freedom for women is that women need men to live. They not only do need men but they are programmed to be dependent on men. Because women are dependent on men, women are forced to do the work for men through domestic services. For example, they perform the task of childcare, cooking, housecleaning, gardening, and personal services. Due to the power with the men, men have direct all these activities. Gilman believes that this obstacle is hard to overcome, and as a result, she thinks this should be changed somehow. 2) John Mitchell stated that Americans needed to deliberate industrial liberty for the poor people and for the freedom of America. To establish industrial liberty, he believed
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