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For many years, women have been through a lot and have always been reguarded as weak or something to be ashamed of. These toxic mentalities have affected women in so many ways and still do.

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- Today in the US, women are paid almost 25% less than men. Almost a century later and the struggle still occurs.
-  To this day, women are still being expected to act a certain way by men like how it was in the 30s.

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Scout starts to become neglected by Jem and Dill which makes her feel left out. She feels like an option to them and is only included when they feel like having her around. When Scout is around Jem and Dill, she is constantly being told to act like anything besides a girl which shows what society was like in the 30s. Women didn't have proper human rights like men did and were always seen in a negative light. Even though now, women have more benefits there are still people who live by that mentality.

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Scout is able to feel confident about her gender with Miss Maudie. As she idolizes Miss Maudie and her company. Although a "lady", Scout is able to befriend Miss Maudie, conveying that being a girl isn't as bad as many have thought to believe.

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Jem keeps pushing on this idea of what a girl is onto Scout. He has a mindset that they are less than men and that they do nothing but create things that are apart of their imagination. It's like he's trying to make Scout feel ashamed of being a girl which can affect the way she acts or feels because it invalidates her which was the case for women in the 30s.

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In this situation, Scout ended up on the Radley property and because she wasn't able to get the tire, Jem became furious. He told her she was being a girl as an insult which is offending to her. In this time period, women weren't treated equally as men. They weren't able to do the things they did since they were always seen as less than them.

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The 1930's was when women wanted to become more than just the assets of men. Almost to the point to were females could be mistaked as property as their rights were nothing compared to the male's. Scout being reminded of such humility by Dill causes her to look down at her gender.

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Life in the 30s for women was not easy due to the limitations they had. They didn't have the ability to do the same things men did. They lived with all these expectations from men which is something that still goes on to this day.

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Religions who strickly followed the bible during the 1930's believed that women were against their teachings. Painting that gender as an act of sin. To the eyes of society, if influenced by the religion, they would believe the same about others or even themselves. Therefore, Scout may feel self conscious about being a female because of how others view the gender.

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"They spent days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party. But I kept aloof from their more fool-hardy schemes for awhile, and on pain being called a girl, I spent most of my remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch" (41-42).

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"Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know." (59)

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"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined thing, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with" (41).

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"She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. . . That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know." (59)

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"Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it's mortifyin'" (38).

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"He staked me out, marked me as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me." (55)