The document discusses gender roles and the characteristics imposed on women by a male-dominated society, describing women as passive, submissive, hopeless, unequal, insignificant, exploited, and ruled by fear and submission. It argues that true masculinity is not defined by aggression and entitlement, and promotes mutual respect between genders as key to cooperation, understanding, and happiness.

1. Understanding True
Humanity
By Nora Helmer

2. Gender
What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?

3. Characteristics of Women in a
Society of Male Dominance
• Passive
• Submissive
• Hopeless
• Unequal Relationships:
A Façade of
• Insignificant
Superficial
• Exploited Happiness
Puppets

4. Masculinity = Aggression and Entitlement?
NO
Family and Home Economics
Politics Society

5. Femininity in a Society of Male
Dominance
Fear
Submission

6. Mutual Respect = Mutual Gain
Happiness
Cooperation
Understanding

7. Change the World
Today, I am a Woman, and you
are a Man.