Further discourse shows that rather than seeing women as deserving of work just as they are, men “let them” work as long as it does not interact with their “serious” industry. “Under no circumstances is a woman permitted to follow any employment not perfectly adapted, both as to kind and degree of labor, to her sex” (257). The men discuss it as if the women are playing at work. Being “inferior of strength to men, and further disqualified industrially in special ways” women work within an entirely separate labor structure (257). However, they are still treated as quite secondary to men. The fact that women have jobs outside the home is exciting and progressive. But when one looks more closely at gender roles, “utopia” becomes a bit more blurry. I do not imagine many people would argue the merits of the eradication of poverty and war. In Bellamy’s Boston in the year 2000, many things have changed from how they were in 1887, and the consensus among the book’s characters is that they have changed for the better.
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