Daddy was written on 12 October 1962 by Sylvia Plath, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel in 1963. Throughout the poem one can see from a feminist perspective, drawing attention to the misogynistic opinions and behaviors of the era in which it was written. Misonogy is a person who dislikes, despises, or has strong prejudices against women. It can manifest itself in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women. Plath uses the reversal of gender stereotypes/roles within Daddy, which could be interpreted as an attempt to empower women. In 1962, when the poem was written, women could not achieve any equality in the workplace; Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar earned by men and were excluded from the most lucrative professional positions. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted, although women's rights were progressing, they had not yet progressed enough and women were still dominated by men. Use the phrase "any shoe further back, in which I lived as a foot", the use of the word "foot" could refer to men as shoe, so women are the foot, so men rather pursued women's needs rather than the other way around, which was a general ideology at the time. The foot is also located on the lower part of the body, which could be interpreted as Plath stating that men are below women, which could link to the gender hierarchy where women are above men, giving them predominantly more power and control, empowering women rather than victimizing them. Furthermore, it could be seen as the speaker declaring that he will no longer put up with the black shoe he lived in. He could compare this shoe to the men in which he wears