Abstract
Although the problem of woman's legal emancipation has long since been solved, the question of woman's place in society today is still open to many interpretations. Even contemporary feminine authors have mixed opinions about woman's role. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Sidney Callahan have sought, to update the traditional concept of woman as mother and housewife in The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, and The Illusion of Eve, while Phyllis McGinley, on the other hand, has celebrated the glory of the homemaker in Sixpence in Her Shoe. | It is apparent, that in the latter part of the twentieth century there is still a divergence of opinions about woman's place in the social scheme and about the womanly ideal itself, just as there was in the nineteenth century when Bernard Shaw sought, to show his contemporaries that they were harboring a false concept of womanhood.