A Jury of Her Peers- Theme of Sexism?

If sexism could be a theme for a short story, then Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers would definitely exemplify that. Gender roles play a huge part in the plot- and eventually the irony- of the story. The women are seen by the men as just silly girls who couldn't possibly know a thing about solving a crime. They are just brought along to be bystanders. They even make fun of the girls when they believe that their conversation about quilts was just trivial when really it was one of the clues that lead the women to solve the mystery. "'They wonder whether she was going to quilt it or just not it!"(Glaspell 417). However, they do not do much to prove the men wrong. The mostly keep to themselves and are quiet especially around the men- they know their place. However, they are more intelligent than the men give them credit for. Putting together clues and understanding some of the feelings that Mrs. Wright must have had, they come to figure out the motive of the murder- which was the whole point of the story. Even though they have outsmarted the men, they keep their secret to themselves- protecting their friend that they know was depressed and unhappy.