What are the motifs in Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy?

Gender Roles are a recurring idea in the book. When Bellamy advocated equality for all citizens in Looking Backward, he included women. At a time when Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were publishing The Revolution, the rights of women was certainly a topic that would concern a man like Bellamy. However, his forward thinking was cemented in nineteenth-century attitudes, and his attempt to be fair remains severely chauvinistic. Nonetheless, for a book written in 1888 to give women occupations outside the home and equal wages is truly striking.