How is gender bias portrayed in Chapter 32?

Gender bias is one of the novel's main themes. One example of this can be found in the information that Faith finds in the parish records. When she see that Agatha was, in fact, married to Winterbourne, she remembers that Faith remembers that her father wrote in his journal that he encounters “the Winterbournes”..... the name of Winterbourne's wife is never revealed.

There is also a comparison between Mr. Winterbourne's wife in the same scene, and the countless other women Faith sees mentioned in the parish records, who are important only because they are the wife, daughter, or mother of some man. Faith sees this as one more example that “Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts” (330).