It is very evident to them as well that Medea is hurt by Jason's betrayal.
There is a definite relationship between the treatment of women and what transpires in the play. Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the princess. This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the subordinate status of the woman, who had no say so in any matter like this. Medea speaks about the injustices women had to endure in her time, which directly relates to the fact that women throughout history have had to live with injustice and inferiority derived from the patriarchal societies of the past. "We women are the most unfortunate creatures," is where she begins to go into details and lists some of the difficulties and unjust situations women are faced with. She talks about frailties of marriage, and how if "the husband lives with us and lightly bears his yolk, then life is enviable." What she means by this is that the only important thing in a woman's life is marriage and children, and if they do not obtain that then they are worthless and considered outcasts. .
She also goes into the freedom that men have to do what they please, but women do not have the freedom to what they want, only what their husbands grant or allow them to do. Also, how women are supposed to stay home with the children while men go off to war. Medea says that she "would very much rather stand three times in the front of the battle than bear one child." The aspect that women were merely objects is brought forth when she says "thought of nothing by my husband-something he won in a foreign land." Medea was definitely no ordinary woman of Greek standards. .
Medea's severe anger and turmoil caused her to seek serious revenge on her husband, she wanted to make him feel devastated and hurt as he made her feel.