Gender Relations and Industrialization in Literature

Abstract

In the world today, women’s issues dominate discussions in many areas of life like economics, politics and labour. Women’s roles in many aspects of life are being re-examined. Gender issues have succeeded to a larger extent in creating awareness of the oppression of women. It has helped to check a great degree of these oppressions. As a literary theory, feminism is contributing its quota in shaping knowledge about women and gender roles cross culturally. This work adopted Threefold pattern theory of gender because women have proven beyond reasonable doubt that they are not inferior to men but help mate and should treat equally with men. The work did not limit to biblical achievement the women made both in the Old and New Testament but equally discussed what women have achieved in this 21st century in various field of lives such as education, economics, politics and in religious matters the work concludes that women should give more opportunity to use their God giving talents and recommends that in this era of industrial revolutions women should allow to be fully participated in all aspect of lives that can bring progress and development to the world at large.