Lowy, Jill. "Looking Inside Pandora's Box." Looking Inside Pandora's Box. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2015. <http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/l/looking_inside_pandora's_box.html>.
In this article Lowy compares the greek myth of Pandora's box to feminism. In Pandora's box, and any other story I have used in this project, the projection of all the horrible things (greed, violence, disease, etc.) have always been the fault of a girl. Whether it's Pandora, Ophelia, Eve or one of the many other characters from stories that could relate to this, it is always a girl that brings on the bad things humanity has to deal with. These stories came from or were set in a time when women were not anywhere near the social status of men, and I think that we are just now within the 2010 decade getting to the point where it is close to becoming equal. Pandora's box can be used as an example to show how far we've come as a society with feminism. We have gone from women always being the ones that cause the problems to more women graduating from college than men (Lowy).
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