While reading A Vindication of the Rights of Women, all I could think about was the difference between the rights women possessed in the past and the rights women get to enjoy today.
In the past, women could literally not do anything. They weren't allowed to learn how to read or write, basically insuring that they couldn't attend school or seek a higher education. There were very few jobs they could actually get and none of them paid very well. Essentially, the only purpose of a woman in the past was to become a wife and a mother, keeping both the family and the home in harmony.
Mary Wollstonecraft was so influential, because she, like many other brave women, was an activist for women's rights when women had none.
Today, women enjoy all the same freedoms as men. We aren't just merely seen as potential wives and mothers; now we are students, scholars, and businesswomen. Though there is still an issue with equal pay, women have come a long way since the 1700's!
Perhaps it is for this reason why I have such a hard time understanding modern feminists. I agree, that both men and women should be paid equally, but other than that, what are we still trying to achieve? Today, women can literally do everything. There is no discrimination, at least none that I have ever stumbled across. Why, then, are there such large groups of activists pushing for change when it seems as though there is nothing at all that needs to change?
Edit - Replied to Jacob Clabo and Rachael Gregson.
In the past, women could literally not do anything. They weren't allowed to learn how to read or write, basically insuring that they couldn't attend school or seek a higher education. There were very few jobs they could actually get and none of them paid very well. Essentially, the only purpose of a woman in the past was to become a wife and a mother, keeping both the family and the home in harmony.
Mary Wollstonecraft was so influential, because she, like many other brave women, was an activist for women's rights when women had none.
Today, women enjoy all the same freedoms as men. We aren't just merely seen as potential wives and mothers; now we are students, scholars, and businesswomen. Though there is still an issue with equal pay, women have come a long way since the 1700's!
Perhaps it is for this reason why I have such a hard time understanding modern feminists. I agree, that both men and women should be paid equally, but other than that, what are we still trying to achieve? Today, women can literally do everything. There is no discrimination, at least none that I have ever stumbled across. Why, then, are there such large groups of activists pushing for change when it seems as though there is nothing at all that needs to change?
Edit - Replied to Jacob Clabo and Rachael Gregson.
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