Women were of no importance to males in the early time periods of these plays. The only role women were supposed to play was to cook, clean and keep their mouth shut. It did not matter if the males were demeaning or hurt the women in any way. In today’s day and age if a man is demeaning or hurts a woman in any way,a majority of the time the cops are called and there is legal action that becomes involved. In both stories A Doll House and Trifles the women are never called be their real first names. The only time a women is called by her first name is in A Doll House, is when Nora is being scolded by her husband. By, the men not calling the women by their first names this is showing that the men could care less about the women. The women in these