They are seen as having a reproductive function in society as bearers of children and are expected to stay at home and take care of children for a long time by doing housework. However, in The Second Sex (1999) Beauvoir argued that women should not be seen only for reproductive purposes. She further argued that women can still have children and also have access to work and paid employment. In her book she described women as "the other" where she argued that women are the object and men are the subject representing the role of the self. The other also refers to the secondary position of women in society. She also compared women's situation and experiences to that of slavery, which suggests that women had few to no rights in society. However, when Beauvoir compares the experience of women in society to slavery, she fails to distinguish between the two different ideologies mentioned. Slavery was about racist ideologies while women's experience is about sexist ideologies. (M. Simons, 1999). Simons (1999) argued that Beauvoir's comparison of racism and slavery to the oppression of women is based on her description of women's lives. The Second Sex (1999) was written based on Beauvoir's experiences and how she understands and views the oppression of women. Even at the time Beauvoir wrote, it was thought that society developed as a result of innovation and exclusively male production, a vision that is not as important today as