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  1. Women in the 1920s and 2020's
  2. of mice and men versus life in the 19 twenties.
  3. It is quite similar since they both take place at the same time and of mice and men,
  4. Curley's wife wasn't seen as a person and she wasn't
  5. referred to as a person rather as curley's wife.
  6. She was portrayed as nothing but the stock tress and she was tied
  7. to Curly on the ranch and she wasn't allowed to own her own property
  8. And she was described only on her looks.
  9. And in the actual 1920s,
  10. women were expected to put their dreams and basically
  11. their lives on hold to get married and raise kids
  12. Um and they couldn't legally own property until the 20th century.
  13. And we can see Steinbeck portray the accurate representation
  14. of women being treated in the 1920s and their rights
  15. seen both in the
  16. in the book and
  17. that century.
  18. Um and and of Mice and men compared to the life in the 2020s.
  19. Um the murder of curly's wife didn't get handled properly,
  20. even though Lenny was shot as a result um for revenge and justice,
  21. it wasn't truly what measures would have been taken in the 2020s,
  22. there would have been a
  23. follow up or police being involved and her death would have been more
  24. um sympathized with others.
  25. Um and she could not find the means to follow
  26. her dreams of becoming an actress because the society that was
  27. um she surrounded herself with was
  28. um did not allow her to kind of follow her actress dreams. So
  29. Um she would have been taken more seriously with her goals in the life of the 2020s
  30. and
  31. she went into crooks room because she was lonely and they wanted her to leave
  32. at the beginning of the book and we can
  33. see a reoccurring theme of loneliness that she wants to
  34. have attention from other men because she lacks being
  35. treated well and the attention from her own husband.
  36. Um And yeah,
  37. um recent events that infringe on women's rights today can be
  38. seen in the hashtag metoo movement and roe versus wade.
  39. Um The Me Too movement helps show support to survivors of sexual abuse and trauma
  40. and they create a community where women can share their stories and their abuse.
  41. Um It also helps spread awareness about how often it really happens
  42. and
  43. how crucial it is to take a step forward to kind of
  44. fix the
  45. normalization of abuse towards women.
  46. And Roe vs Wade is referring to the statement that was a lawsuit in 1973,
  47. held in the US Supreme Court by Henry Wade.
  48. Um district attorney of Texas and
  49. it was against norma McCorvey known as jane roe as for anonymity
  50. and
  51. She was unemployed 22 unmarried
  52. and wanted an abortion.
  53. However, by the time they ruled in her favor she had already given birth and
  54. wade's job was to prohibit abortion except to save a woman's life.
  55. So he was the person McCorvey sued when she sought the abortion
  56. and the Supreme Court
  57. ultimately disagreed with Rose assertion of an
  58. absolute right to terminate her pregnancy.
  59. And since then,
  60. conservative states have been more um prominent and diligent to
  61. chip away at abortion rights for women and create laws that
  62. restrain women for having the freedom to choose their own health
  63. laws.