;keep the folks waiting...in the cold." This was extremely disrespectful and rude from Mr Hale. After gathering things for Mrs Wright the two women are then expected to wait for the men to finish their important business upstairs and in the barn. The women want to go but they have no choice but to wait "If they are going to find any evidence, I wish they'd be about it. I don't like this place." This presents that men's time is much more important than women's. 'A Jury Of Her Peers' shows the gendered assumptions of male superiority over women as they are forced to follow men.
             It is an assumed belief in this short story that women are unintelligent and know nothing. Mr Hale shows this assumption with the sexist questioning "But would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?" The women do not appreciate this as they "stand motionless and silent" waiting for the men to go. Glaspell also uses setting to prove the belief of women's unintelligence. They are always left in the kitchen with the
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