8th+grade+-+Golden+Age+of+SF+-+Gender+Roles+and+Relationships+(4th+block)

This Woman vs. Man drama started a little after World War 2. Most of the men left their families and jobs, some which included writing to go fight in the war. This left al the women to work outside of the households and start were they left off. They soon adapted to this and found out that they were just as interested in the future as the men. But, after the war was over the males didn't like the sound of this. I have heard that men have egos. So, my personal opinion on this is that the males were afraid that the women would take over and that hurt their egos. Know that it wasn't always thought of like this. Mary Shelley created the first science fiction story ever in 1818. __Frankenstein__ became a big hit in the 1800s and is now apart of history. Once realizing that women can do something women became stronger and started wrinting stories, comics, and even cartoons such as Wonder Woman, The Stepford Wives, and SailorMoon. Only difference was people did listen and supported them. Females are now called the strongest reatures mentally known to man. **
 * During the 20th century female writing was a big deal, especially in science fiction. Some books written by women or about women were either never supported or not even put on the shelves. It was very hard for females to be heard back then, even during the Golden Ages. The women who books did get sold had very tough criticism or had a fake male name as the author because they did not want to put up with all the criticism. No matter what they wrote it was always wrong because most of the men thought that they should've been in the household READ[[image:SailorMoon.png width="177" height="237" align="left"]]ING the book instead of WRITING it.