Today, for the most part, women are seen as equal to men. Women are given the same opportunities as men and the same possibility of getting a job.In today's society, women no longer have a role, which is to have children and raise them, but they can pursue any career they wish. However, this has not always been the case patriarchal, meaning they were dominated by males. Society was organized in such a way that the male was above the female in all aspects of culture, including family, religion, politics, economics, art and social and legal realms and the female said that a male must be active, dominant, adventurous, rational and creative. In the novel A Passage to India, E.M. Forster expressed this male dominance during the 1920s by writing: "He paid no attention to them, and with this, which would have passed without comment in feminist England, she has done harm in a community where the male is expected to be lively and helpful” (Forster 52). They say that being a woman means being passive, agreeable, shy, emotional and conventional. Feminist theorists' argument of a male-centered society is certainly present in Forster's novel, where he reveals cultural, economic, and educational factors within the patriarchal Indian society that limit women. In Forster's novel, A Passage to India, Forster exposes derogatory stereotypes of women to support the view of women during the time period. In A Passage to India, Forster shows prejudice against women. One of the derogatory stereotypes used by Forster is lack of intelligence. While reading the novel, Forster gives the reader the impression that the female characters are not intelligent or important in society. But...... middle of the paper ...... technique 20.3 (1990): 331-41. JSTOR. Network. March 4, 2011. .Sharpe, Jenny. "A Passage to India by E.M. Forster." Contemporary literary criticism. Ed. James P Draper, Jennifer Brostrom and Jennifer Gariepy. vol. 77. Detroit: Gale, 1993. 253-57. Rpt. of “The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counterinsurgency.” Genres 10 (1991): 25-46. Literary criticism online. Network. March 4, 2011. .Silver, Brenda R. "Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in 'A Passage to India'." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 22.1 (1988): 86-105. JSTOR. Network. 4 March 2011. .Muri, Elizabeth Macleod. "An Aristotelian reading of the female voice as revolution in E.M. Forster's A Passage To India." Language and Literature Papers 35.1 (1999): 56. Literature Resource Center. Network. March 25. 2011.