Assertion: handmaid's wife | /r/HasProperty | barren
Facets:
value: largely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Offred is separated from her family and designated a handmaid, which means she must act as a surrogate for the ruling class of men whose wives are largely barren due to a combination of pollution and rampant sexually transmitted disease.
text: Gilead is a society where men are in control, and women, who have no rights, are classed as either Wives (barren women married to the elite class of Commanders), Daughters (of Commanders and their Wives), Marthas (working women), Aunts (who are responsible for the Handmaids), Econowives (those who marry non-Commander men), or Handmaids (women, like Offred, who were chosen for their fertility).