How unjust to women can you get?

In the story "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, we are introduced to a very anti-women society. Men are allowed to have many and treat them how ever they want. Like when Okonkwo awaited his youngest wife to return from "plait her hair at a friend's house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal" and then "when she returned he beat her very heavily" (25-26). This shows how they expect women to wait on the men hand and foot, treating them like servants in a rich man's house. They do not respect the women, and they treat them not like humans, but like cattle and property. They are not good for anything but keeping a tidy house and cooking the meals. This society is so uneducated that they think that they have the right to beat their wife/wives when ever they want to. These women are taught to follow the men, because is in they way their society works. The women have no power to make their own decisions, as you can tell, Okonkwo's youngest wife went out to get her hair done and returned to get beaten because she did not have the afternoon meal done in time. It seem that the only mention of women having power in the community, however small it might be, is in the women Anasi. "Anasi was a middle-aged woman, tall and strongly built. There was authority in her bearing and she looked every inch the ruler of the womenfolk in large and prosperous family. She wore the anklet of her husband's titles, which the first wife alone could wear" (Achebe 18). Cheris Karamarae said that "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" (Feminism 185), but the people in Okonkwo's village don't think to agree. The culture of the village was developed so that women come second in every thing, even life. Like some people in American downgrade women's right with the phrase that women are supposed to be 'barefoot, in the kitchen and pregnant.