Alexis De Tocqueville: The Social Condition Of American Women

Alexis de Tocqueville, compares the social condition of American women to that of their European counterparts. In Europe people mix up the characteristics od the sexes, and make mean and woman into beings not only equal, but alike. Both genders impose on the same duties, have the same rights granted, same occupations, pleasures and business. In America there is a wide difference between the physical and moral constitution of man and woman, and divide the duties between them. I favor the way Europe runs their country, I believe everyone was born equal and any gender should therefore have the same opportunity as the opposite sex. I think America should not have such a constant care to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes,