Allowing women to work was nothing new. Women had already begun supplementing their household incomes through work during the Great Depression.
However, from then until now, women's main occupations had still been part-time jobs or relatively light physical labor, such as handicrafts or work related to textiles.
Few women were willing to take on heavy physical labor, and the Feminism Movement did not encourage it either.
They discussed women's demands for economic independence, but the focus was always on respectable jobs, such as writers or secretaries.
Society had always instilled women with the values of the "New Woman." In advertisements, television dramas, and films, the so-called "New Woman" and "independent woman" were usually portrayed in fixed, standardized ways.
They wore fashionable or professional clothes, entered and left large office buildings, had their own private offices, and always looked like powerful career women.
It seemed that only by achieving all this could a woman become an independent New Woman.
The indoctrination of values was terrifying. Perhaps it was also why Sexual Domination Culture had become increasingly widespread in major corporations in recent years!
You could find women like this in almost any company on Financial Street in Bu Peien.
They wore expensive clothes, entered and left large office buildings, and always presented themselves as intellectual women.
They did not seem particularly busy. Everyone appeared to possess a special elegance and serenity.
Sometimes, they would appear in cafes near the company, order a cup of coffee and a pastry, then focus on reading magazines, newspapers, or doing office work.
They acted exactly as people imagined New Women would, fitting the image almost perfectly.
But behind that image lay a terrifying Sexual Domination Culture.
Most of them became the companies' semi-public "prizes." Whenever someone demonstrated value at work, these women would be handed