This paper focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the slight presence of women in it. It will concentrate on what women represent in the book, because, allegedly, they are characters with minor significance than men characters. There are many theories given for this absence of women, including Freudian concepts, the patriarchal society of that era, a system in which male have the power and the predominant roles on politics, moral authorities, social privilege and control of property or the presumed homosexuality between the male characters. In the tale, women appear as habitants of the city and define it; they are the victims of Mr Hyde attacks, direct or indirectly: the young girl that is ran over by Hyde that may have sexual connotation as if it was referring to the child prostitution in London; the angry woman that accuses Hyde of hurting the girl; the housekeeper and the maid at the window who witnesses the murder of Carew, this assault is meant as a psychological damage rather than a physical one, she is disturbed from her quiet state of mind: Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience) never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world. And as she so sat she became aware of an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane; and advancing to meet him, another and very small gentleman. [The older man’s face] seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition, yet with something high too, as of well-founded self-content. Mr Hyde clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted. (Stevenson 29) All of these appearance reinforce the presence women and their sexual repression in that era and how this could be a reason of the resulting disorders on men behavior. The description made of “some city in a nightmare” after Utterson has found out about Carew’s murder could be associated with women, seeing the city as an invisible women, therefore it is