Women's Plight Political Cartoon

Women’s rights nowadays have increased since some years back, but they still face opposition. In this political cartoon there is a sign with an arrow that says “Women’s Rights”. This shows how women appear to have gained more rights since the earlier times, or have they? The suggestion of the spider and its web suggests some inactivity. Likewise, the subject of women have fewer rights or voice, arises in the writings and life of Anne Bradstreet, who, although she wrote poetry, needed to camoflauge her true feelings of fear, insecurity, intelligence amidst Puritan doctrine and subject or she would not be able write. Also, in this political cartoon there is a woman being dragged by a man in the opposite direction of the “Women’s Rights” sign. This explains how men oppose women’s rights and do not allow them to have the same privileges. Again, Bradstreet's poems were edited by others in order to be published; this suggests that, like the cartoon, she did not really have freedom of expression, but limited voice. Is it appearance vs. reality, or do women truly have equal footing with men?