Gender Inequality In Adam's Rib '

Adam’s Rib, a 1949 film features Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in a comedy with a twist where there almost seems to be an anticlimax. The main theme throughout the movie remains shedding light on gender inequality (which in the context of 1949 is very much relevant) as well as the importance of following the letter of law as these two appear seemingly conflicted in the beginning, but in the end it is established that the law should be unbiased and no one should have the right to injure/harm or do any act in furtherance of this. In this time, keeping the depiction in mind, there was no concept of grave and sudden provocation making the act culpable homicide not amounting to murder but, that the act in this case was either just an assault