ABSTRACT
Women hold a doubly marginalised status in the oppressive system of Capitalism. This results in the feminisation of poor – an issue addressed in Pygmalion and Candida. Marx and Engels talked about the correlation of prostitution and marriage, but it was Shaw who normalised this idea in Mrs. Warren’s Profession for the existential feminists to elaborate upon further. A cry for the cause of recognition and remuneration of the unpaid reproductive labour has been uttered in Candida. The upper-class social mobility for women has been prohibited since time immemorial, resulting in their social castration from power and the second sex status. This existing vice in the system has been exposed by Shaw in Saint Joan. Thus, Shaw brought to the fore Marxist issues in feminism which the second and third wave feminists have elaborated upon.
