George Bernard Shaw's contribution to the fight for women's rights in society

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the defense of women's rights in a modern context of machismo and injustice, which is believed to have started since the beginning of history. In this supposed fight for equality, some specialists have suggested that women have always been the oppressed and subordinate sex, while men have been the dominant group, since they had the power to make laws to dictate social and political norms to place women in a limited sphere. This is a tendency to think that men hesitated to resort to violence with the intention of consolidating their dominance over the so-called weaker sex. In this sense, the study aims to study the contribution of George Bernard Shaw in the defense of women's rights and to be considered free and dignified, outside of a condition of submission.