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Women Being Important in Society
In the nineteenth century, women were treated completely differently than men. While men were allowed to have opinions and requests for changes, women had to stay at home and take care of things. They were not allowed to vote, and for doing basic things such as cooking and cleaning, they did not need an education for that. Women were viewed as fragile. Men had the opportunity to vote, go to a university and get an education. Women felt like they were not a part of society. All that was expected of them was to have children and to be committed to being full-time moms and being submissive to their husbands. The fact that women did not get a chance to get an education demonstrates that their voices did not matter, it demonstrates that they were seen as people not worthy of flourishing in life. If a woman lacked innocence or did not know how to cook and clean, she could be seen as useless. All these expectations that women had must have been really frustrating and suffocating. Men never had to deal with worrying about anything since they never had to deal with getting denied rights. Obviously, men had expectations, but those expectations do not get in the way of anything. A man could work, go to college, or not do any of those things, and still have more power over women. Why were women lacking opportunities in this era? Were men afraid that women would be just as smart as them? Did they believe that if women decided to fight for their rights that once they got what they wanted, they would ruin things for society? Now, even if women were to get an education, or be able to vote, their opinions would still not matter. A woman could be a teacher, and probably makes less money than a man who is also a teacher, this only proves that women have always been seen as less. In the book written by Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of The Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft believed that women should be able to have the same rights as men, she believed that the relationship between men and women would have improved if women were able to get the same rights as men. She felt that women should not feel like they were less than men. Wollstonecraft did not believe that women are only useful for men, but that they are useful for themselves as well; she did not want women to have this fixed mindset that they are only meant to be fragile and sensitive. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman proves that women’s rights were not about women wanting to have power over men, but it was about women wanting to feel powerful and feel important in society just like men.
By Diani Alvarenga3 years ago in Humans
