How Did Wollstonecraft Create Equal Opportunities For Women
In the Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft wanted to create equal opportunity for women as well as for men. The playing field for both men and women alike should be even; one shouldn’t be favored over the other. Wollstonecraft wanted women to have the same opportunities that men had; a good formal education as wealthy men, a profession with higher intellectual status, and positive virtues. Women having an educational background and using that to their strengths. For women to use their educational wits to their strengths would provide them with better job opportunities and not always depending on their husband to make decisions for them or household. However, men are trained at finding professions while women are trained for marriage
and not encouraged to explore the educational field to their advantage. Women should be just as qualified as men in training for future career opportunities and be allowed to broaden their horizon. Also, gender is a societal construct and that even though there might be a physical difference between men and women, modern civilization relies on intelligence and physical differences don’t really mean anything. A person should not be judged by their outward appearance, rather than what they possess on the inside and what kind of morals and values they carry within their mind and heart. Wollstonecraft informs the reader that a man when he enters a profession has his eye steadily fixed on a future advantage while women seek for pleasure as the main purpose of existence. Fatal passions have domineered over the whole sex of women throughout generations and she wants to see an end put to objectify women and being told how women should behave or present themselves. Wollstonecraft spoke up for the most oppressed demographic in the world which is women. Wollstonecraft is known as the first feminist of the West, arguing for equality for both sexes and to give women power over themselves. is quoted saying, “I don’t wish women to have power over men but themselves.” Women should have a say in their bodies and power of the decision they make for themselves not have other people decide what’s best for them. Vindication means justification; which Wollstonecraft is trying to justify why women should have equal rights.
and not encouraged to explore the educational field to their advantage. Women should be just as qualified as men in training for future career opportunities and be allowed to broaden their horizon. Also, gender is a societal construct and that even though there might be a physical difference between men and women, modern civilization relies on intelligence and physical differences don’t really mean anything. A person should not be judged by their outward appearance, rather than what they possess on the inside and what kind of morals and values they carry within their mind and heart. Wollstonecraft informs the reader that a man when he enters a profession has his eye steadily fixed on a future advantage while women seek for pleasure as the main purpose of existence. Fatal passions have domineered over the whole sex of women throughout generations and she wants to see an end put to objectify women and being told how women should behave or present themselves. Wollstonecraft spoke up for the most oppressed demographic in the world which is women. Wollstonecraft is known as the first feminist of the West, arguing for equality for both sexes and to give women power over themselves. is quoted saying, “I don’t wish women to have power over men but themselves.” Women should have a say in their bodies and power of the decision they make for themselves not have other people decide what’s best for them. Vindication means justification; which Wollstonecraft is trying to justify why women should have equal rights.