".it would be best for you to have some feminine influence. It won't be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys-" page 133. Gender prejudice does not only happen among Scout's relatives, but also around the town. Scout questions Miss Maudie after she came back from the trial about why can't women be juries at those times. During the 1930s, only men were allowed to sit on the jury place, which Scout finds very unfair as these juries defend the whites only even though they were guilty. She would prefer people who think like Jem, Miss Maudie, Atticus, and herself (people who are not against blacks) to sit on a jury.

             Jem and Scout are some of the characters in the novel that are less prejudice toward racism. Even though Jem and Scout are prejudice toward Atticus because of their age differences, they are not prejudice toward Miss Maudie. Miss Maudie, one of Aunt Alexandra's friends who comes over for tea, is actually good company of Jem and Scout's. ".we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernogs if we didn't jump on the arbor and explore her vast back lot.".

             Scout learns that life isn't fair and how deep rooted some prejudices are when she goes to see the trial of Tom Robinson versus Mayella Ewell. For the first time, she realizes that color and appearances do matter in Maycomb County. One of the main incidents in this novel about racism is when the trial of Tom Robinson against Mayella Ewell is held (chapter 17-22). During the 1930s, even if whites were guilty of some crimes, the blacks that are tried against them would be convicted because they were automatically thought to be guilty. "In our courts, when it's a white man's words against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." Page 226. This happens to Tom Robinson when he is tried against a white girl. .

             It is very obvious when Atticus questions her that she is not telling the truth.