'Peaky Blinders': It is the badass women who are the real ringleaders in the Shelby family
BBC One's 'Peaky Blinders' has been a show that, in spite of being set against the early decades of the 1900s- a time when to be conservative was the social norm- has been breaking all rules. From talking about the working class instead of the flamboyance of the aristocrats and the royals to characters who are as contemporary in nature as the age in which the show is being watched, the Cillian Murphy starring show has every reason to be the best in the lot. However, with one exception. The Steven Knight-created show's treatment of men and women on an equal platform is what sets it apart.
Not for once has creator Knight treated his female characters as "women" but these characters are creatures who are just as complex and shaded in grey as their male counterparts. The 1900s were a time when women had strict roles to follow such as married women would stay at home while men earned the weekly wages and single women took up low-profile jobs such as housekeeping. Knight's women were unlike their fellow mates of that early period of the century. These women were the ones who held the empire together when the men were out in the trenches fighting a war. The traditional roles were amended and women took up the jobs of men due to the lack of male power in the labor force.
