What is the one thing the writer makes you curious about? Why?

While reading this book, the author makes me curious about many things. The number one thing that the author makes me curious about is the backstory about how the world got to be the way that is is. As I am reading, I am slowly starting to understand, but I am still curious about why society has dramatically changed. In chapter twenty-eight, the director of the company in which the main chapter worked says, "'Not fired,' he said. 'Let go. You can’t work here any more, it’s the law.'" While reading this part, I wanted to know more about why it was against the law for women to have jobs. I want to know why women were treated with less respect than men. I am very curious about what the world was like before the dystopian world occurred and what made the world that way. Why are women nly god for baring children and if they can't bare children, why is that such a bad thing? In general, I am curious about the rights that women used to have and the rights that they have now. While I continue to read, I hope that the author explains in more detail about the past and what makes the present the way it is. I am curious about these things because I want to know more about the book and the past. I also would like to know the author's motives behind writing The Handmaid's Tale and why it has taken the author many chapters to start explaining the past.