Reading both “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi and “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” by Anne Koedt has given me a deeper understanding of what liberated women are defined as. To begin, it needs to be understood that liberated women and Women’s Liberation are different according to Pat Mainardi. A liberated woman can be defined as a woman who doesn’t label herself like how society labels women and is independent because she gets what she wants and needs by herself. Mainardi defines Women’s Liberation as women who stay at home and do all the housework with no help from their husbands while a liberated woman is free to do what she pleases.

Liberated woman are an important puzzle piece for Women’s Liberation. Liberated women lead the path for other women to become more independent and not live by societies stereotypes of what a “women should and shouldn’t be doing”. Liberated women help make a change and set new expectations for women who are too scared to stand up against this judgmental world we live in. I hope one day all women are liberated.

“The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” is another example of how even in sexual intercourse, ‘it’s always about the men’. Traditional sexual positions are mostly to please men, not women, therefore, leading to experts wrongly claiming that women who don’t have orgasms are “frigid”. Anne Koedt believes that sexual pleasure should be redefined in order to please both men and women, which I completely agree with. Sex should be about both parties participating, not just one.