There are innumerable definitions of feminism, with many fervently arguing the specific explanations of the word. Even attempting to elucidate the movement is considered controversial. Hence, this paper would be applying the most general sense of the word “feminism." According to Oxford English Dictionary, the definition is, “The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes." Using the plays, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, this essay seek to address the obstacles faced by feminisms, which can be categorized into one word, oppression – oppression in the workplace, oppression by other women, societal oppression and more. Femininity oppression has been an issue that has not been resolved even up to today. The endeavor to achieve equal rights for both genders is still a present problem that has not changed despite the acknowledgement of this bone of contention since the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. (Keetley 3) In Top Girls, Churchill introduces us to Marlene throwing a dinner party in Act One, Scene One with five other characters – all whom are women. On the surface, these ladies arrive from particularly disparate backgrounds – Pope Joan from the 9th century, Isabella Bird who travelled around the world extensively in the 19th century, Lady Nijo who served as a concubine and then became a Buddhist nun during the Kamakuran period, Dull Griet who is a strong fierce fictional character from a 16th century painting and lastly, Patient Griselda who is also a literary figure in Geoffrey Chacer’s, “The Canterbury Tales” that devotes her whole life to obeying male figures. However, they have one thing in common. In “Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls – Feminism Vs Culture”, Wesermann states that “Although these characters’ lives strongly differ regarding that they lived in different centuries, different countries, different classes and with different educational backgrounds, all are connected through extraordinary experiences of oppression, suffering and having to make certain compromises and most of all did not live a fulfilled and happy life.” (3) Hence, it is certain that these characters come from contrasting time periods, ranging from as early as the 9th century up to the current times, which is represented by Marlene, a high-flying career-minded woman in the 1980s. However, these characters share one similarity – they face oppression due to their gender. These ladies are all slaves to the male figures in their lives – Pope Joan could not get an education and would have never gotten her job as the pope if she had not concealed her gender. Isabelle Bird married late and dedicated her life to her husband despite the fact that she would have rather travelled even more around the globe. Lady Nijo had to serve as a concubine, living to please the King and men around her. Patient Griselda was a victim of spousal abuse, bidding every word her husband and father requested of her. Finally, Marlene is unable to carry out her female duties as a mother as she decides to trade it for the success in her line of work. These six characters’ lives, fictional and non-fictional, all from different ages, revolves almost entirely around the fact that there is an obstacle in front of them, and that would be the oppression faced due to their gender. Similarly, Henrik Ibsen had published A Doll’s House in 1879 and one would observe that the many problems Ibsen had written for the main protagonist, Nora in the 1880s still remains an issue in this time and age. Men and women are mea