How Women Should Be Treated Equally Or Not?

However, the revolution didn’t encourage both sexes to reevaluate the women’s right. It very little changed happen women still had the same basic rights like before. However, Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, became an early supporter of women's rights when she prompted her husband to "REMEMBER THE LADIES" when starting up a new government. Even though Adams passed a new law that protects some women from bad husband this new law did not protect the single women. Also, women need and wanted to have the same right as men. Women have the same capacity and the same intellectual as men, there is no difference. The only difference between women and men that men have access to education and have more power than women before the American Revolution, this changed after women started to realize that they could have the same rights as men. Furthermore, American women deserve to have the same right. If the republic were to succeed, women must be educated in quality so they could teach their children how

For centuries, women have been treated with inequality and denied basic rights that men are given. However, when World War 11 began on September 10, 1939, things began to change. Canada was still struggling with the remnants of the Great Depression, and out of 11 million people, 900,000 were unemployed. 20% of that number were women. There were only 600,000 working ladies, but they made up the small portion of 17% of the labour force. As the men left for war, the females took over most of the jobs in the factories. Many even said they did a better job than the men did. Over time, they began to work a variety of jobs that they were not able to before, but it wasn’t enough. Even though by 1944, the end of the war, the number of women working

Women’s rights in the enlightenment period of Europe was a topic of great contest. Women wanted the same rights as men, rights men were not willing to give up. At the forefront of this battle were two intellectuals with views that seemed to be polar opposites. On one side was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, holding the opinion that “all education of women must be relative to men” and they were created to cater towards their husband and children. Mary Wollstonecraft was of an opposing opinion, she believed that the education of women must promote “liberty and self-reliance”.

The American Revolution, which happened during the last half of the eighteenth century, reshaped many aspects of life in America. The desire of the Founding Fathers to make America a republic played a very significant part in changing the role of women after the Revolution. The role of women as wives became more important as an emphasis on virtue was established; women were encouraged to find virtuous husbands and utilize their seductive nature to keep men virtuous. The roles of women as mothers also became more important in the republic, as patriarchy loosened and mothers were depended on to educate their children in the republican way. And finally, the role of women in politics was theoretically reduced due to the increasing demands of

Historians once presumed that, since women during the American Revolution had limited or no political decisions, and demonstrated little concern in achieving the franchise, they were fundamentally apolitical members of the society. In the modern world, scholars acknowledge the fact that women played a leading role during the war and they were actively involved in debates, which accompanied the movement towards independence, and that the war expanded their territories in their political and legal roles. Furthermore, the male welcomed women’s support during the war that was a very instrumental move towards the expansion of the women’s roles in the society unlike in the past when women were restricted to household chores. As women filled important roles because of the shortage of men to fill these roles, like managing business and farms, the idea that females were lesser than males started to fade away (Bielich, 2008). The laws prior to and during the revolution did not acknowledge females as equal to men in

Between the article written by Sarah Stickney Ellis and the article from the Ohio Women’s Convention, two competing perspectives of women’s rights and gender equality are displayed. From opinions provided by Sarah Stickney Ellis, women should not be involved in politics, men are entitled to women treating them as superior, women have certain obligations to their husbands, and men and women have different natures, which is why they should be treated differently. Her article regularly expresses the belief that women and men are not equals with the latter superior to the former. In almost complete discrepancy to what Sarah Stickney Ellis said, the Ohio Women’s Convention believes that women should be involved in politics and the government,

The Declaration of Independence represents justice, equality, and natural human rights. Written to liberate American citizens from British control, the document stood for the colonists to live as freely as they wished. As grand as this document is, the pronouns and terminology used throughout this document is in the eye of controversy when the rights and status of women become involved. Mary Wollstonecraft, writer of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is a major forerunner of the Women’s Rights Movement. Comparing her work to the Declaration of Independence, it can be seen that Wollstonecraft’s ideas can be served as a critique against the masculinity put forth in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration makes numerous remarks recognizing only the rights of men. This excluded women from being recognized in the Declaration.

Women's rights was a very popular topic midway through the 19th century, and continued to be so until there was a degree of full parity between the sexes established in contemporary social, political and economic life in the 20th century. However, there were a number of dissidents who believed that women should not be treated equally as men in the 19th century, one of the most eloquent of which was Revered John Todd in his manuscript Women's Rights. The crux of the author's argument is that God did not intend for women to be independent, and therefore they were physically constructed in a manner in which true emancipation from the influence of men is impossible. Many of Todd's points to corroborate these facts are directly challenged by Gail Hamilton in her work of literature entitled Women's Wrongs. An analysis of excerpts from both of these texts indicates that Hamilton's refutation of Todd's major points is more convincing than those actual points themselves.

Republican Motherhood was a movement toward equality of the sexes in the time of Revolutionary America. This movement was sparked by a famous quote made by Thomas Jefferson, “All men are created equal.” Although sparking a movement for equality the statement was intended to only mean the male gender. This truth of the statement becomes clear when we analyze the results of this movement.

That although they have paid taxes women who own property have had no voice in the selection of representatives or the use of their tax money. No consent has been given According to Locke people should not be bound to rules enforced by leaders who they have not appointed (Offutt, 124). The sacrifices that women

The political views of male Enlightenment figures consisted of campaigning for human rights and freedom for all, but when they said all, in most cases this invitation did not include women. During the Enlightenment, the period of reasoning and logic, new ideas supporting women’s rights were conceived. The persecution and objectification that women have faced throughout history is immeasurable. There was nothing close to equality between men and women in political, social, or economic fields. Men considered women’s only purpose their ability to bear children, heirs for the upper classes and laborers for the lower. Women’s fathers and husbands had dictated the limitations and rules of conduct for women, placing restraints as in which people they

Locke was starting to lean towards feminist views, although he was still lacking because he gave limits to women’s rights. Locke supplied women with more rights, but did limit them. Locke include women when talking about the rights to property. Locke had believe that everyone is entitled to their own personal property. Today, we are still fighting for equal rights for everyone.

John Locke wanted was for the government to protect people's natural right and not to separate men and women because the one quote states that "creatures of the same species and rank… should also be equal one amongst another with another without subordination or subjection" and that meant that everyone bearing the same, so that means that they all should be treated equally and that they shouldn't be separated because if we all were born the same way, why be separated now and that's related to natural rights because we're all people the government should protect

Locke’s have developed different views on human nature. He states, that all the men should have natural right to get private property and protection should a top priority of the government. Locke’s powerful quotes states that the men should have the right to life, liberty and property. He depends on human reason to give citizens their freedom and their right to protect it. This freedom is the foundation of the individual’s way of life and their human rights. A threat to an individual’s freedom can be extended to be a threat to many other aspects of the individual to take away their freedom. One of the Locke’s quote states, “Master and servant are names as old as history, but

“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792), “was written by British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be “companions” to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men”(# 2; genius). This philosophy was mostly resigned to the wealthy and (parochial) catholic educators who by 1870 had worked to make public education available to all children.