This article will question the condition of women, also called “the other”, what feminism is and how it is represented in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex. Simone de Beauvoir’s analysis of sexism is perhaps her most powerful theoretical contribution to feminism. In a sexist society, she argues, man is the universal and woman is the particular; he is the One, she is the Other. Women therefore regularly find themselves placed in a position where they are faced with the “choice” between being imprisoned in their femininity and being obliged to masquerade as an abstract genderless subject. In the second part of our article, we will focus on how Simone de Beauvoir’s literary work was perceived in Romanian press and particularly “The Second Sex” which was published after 49 years of its apparition in France.