Gender and Murray

On the Equality of Sexes Before woman had any rights in this country, things were a lot different when it came for a woman to live its life to its fullest. In the essay, On the Equality of the Sexes by Judith Sargent Murray she talks about all of the problems that woman faced in the late 1700 through the 1800. Throughout the essay, Murray compares the woman’s and man’s right on the ability of imagination, reasoning, memories and judgments. One of the things that she strongly believed that all women were surrenders to use their imaginations and couldn’t live their lives. Murray got her education through her brother. While he was studying to go to Harvard University (back in the day it used to be an all men school), Murray would listen to her brother professor and that’s how she got her education. However Murray held many ideas about women’s education that was very radical during her time period and even today in some other cultures. Murray felt that the chores that the woman used to do, did not offer any intellectual stimulation and that if women did not find more uses for their intellect, they would use it for ill purposes. Another thing that she also believed was that their was accusations on woman being intellectual inferior stemmed not from their natural abilities, but all of this from the way the woman was raised, as men were encourage to learn and women were suppose to neglect there lack of learning.

According to Murray, how could an uneducated woman marry an educated man, how can someone fill someone who is uneducated feel an experience filling of ashamed upon the rest of their life. In another way, if she marries another uneducated man her life will be even worse than if she got married an educated man because than both of them would have no clue what to do with there belongings and how to live a proper life. If they had a good education, people made good choice in life and also they would have made good decision upon marrying someone. Murray