ABSTRACT
The Women’s Roomis Marilyn French’s 1977 classic tale of suburban isolation, in which the main character, Mira Ward, questions the accepted social norms regarding women’s limited place in society. “The school had been planned for men, and there were places, she had been told, where women were simply not permitted to go. It was odd. Why? she wondered. Women were so unimportant anyway, why would anyone bother to keep them out?” After many twists and turns, Mira Ward’s journey ends up embracing the relevance of women’s work – unappreciated and unnoticed as it is – to the world at large.
