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Essay / What Role Does Iron Play in a Utopian Society - 1142
However, as Hythloday discusses the occupations of the utopians, readers get a glimpse of what life is really like for utopian women. Community life being an essential element of utopian society, each evening, when the dining halls are full, slaves are assigned to all the dirty and difficult work, while utopian women carry out all the domestic work. In addition to performing all cooking and other domestic chores, during dinner, women sit "outside, so that if a woman has sudden discomfort or pain...she can get up without disturbing the others…” which, as in modern societies. , classify women in a specific niche of society as caretakers (51). Aside from the domestic roles women are assigned to, there are more examples of the lack of equality for women present in this patriarchal system.