Women’s struggle is the hardship that women do to achieve emancipation in political, legal, social, and cultural positions for women to erase discriminations and oppressions experienced by women in society. Black women had to work as slaves and did not have any political rights, while white women had several rights but they did not have the right to vote and had separate spheres. This research focuses on the differences of women’s struggle that black and white women needed to endure during the Victorian era. This research is expected to give readers the knowledge of understanding and appreciating literary works, especially those written about women. The methodology of this research is a descriptive qualitative method with a novel entitled The Various Flavors of Coffee (2008) written by Anthony Capella as the object. It analyzes the paragraphs, narrations, quotations and sentences from the novel that shows the theory of women struggle from the main female characters in order to be able to answer the research question. The results of this research shows how women struggled in five sectors in life, those are the working field, financial dependence, political rights, education, sexual exploitation and marriage.