Women, no matter to which strata, class or caste of society to which they belong, are always the sufferers, the one to whom society metes out the rawest deal. If one studies the history of society from its beginnings to the modern age, one will observe that while society by itself has progressed to a commendable extent, the progress made towards improving the condition of women is comparatively, not much. Women are still viewed by the greater part of the society as mere belongings-of first the father, then the husband, and then that of the son. That a woman can exist as an individual, choosing to live life on her very own terms is, even in this twenty-first century, not acceptable to the larger, more dominant part of the society. The three autobiographies studied in this paper - On Balance, A Life Less Ordinary and Bride at Ten, Mother at Fifteen, represent the lives of three women from three different social strata, and yet their sufferings and humiliation at the hands of the patriarchal society that we still inhabit point to the truth of my contention that women constitute a separate oppressed class, based on their oppression as women, regardless of the socioeconomic class to which they belong