Relation between sexes in the World State

Women occupy positions of inferior power and status in the World State. When we learn that in order to keep the State’s control over reproduction, many of the female fetuses are sterilized, but none of the male fetuses are. The Malthusian belt, containing regulation contraceptives, is another example of the burden put on women to avoid pregnancies. Lenina and Fanny are Beta females, and the people in positions of power, Bernard, Helmholtz, and in the Hatchery the Director, Henry, and in the government Mustapha Mond, are all male. In the social part, the relations between the sexes are liberalized, but in the works and politics the power remains to men.