"Gist: The novel "The One That Decides Everything" explores in detail the concept of male dominance in society through the prism of science fiction. Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader into a world where women are losing their rights and freedom because of the harbingers of countries' utter apathy against their independence. It invites the reader to think about the riddle of how to avoid this fate and to change the cherished understandings with innate cowardice. The heroine of the novel paves the path of resistance through the use of her own strength and faith that together with herself she makes a creative person beautiful, and cooperation with like-minded people. Thanks to this, the novel becomes a real guide for those who are looking for sources of inner strength and confidence in their own abilities.