What Is The Subjection Of Women In The Late 1860's

In the late 1860’s when Mill published his essay on “The Subjection of Women” women’s rights were extremely low but slowly rising. Almost two decades later, women are still not equal to men when it comes to getting their voice heard. Women have trouble getting their opinions voiced in places such as congress. Almost all of our legislation is still created from the ideas of men without even the slightest opinion from women. At the time of Mill’s essay, women were not allowed to be educated and be independent and were forced into a dependent relationship’s through marriage. Women’s independence relies on them being educated and self-sustaining but our society pushes them away from education by putting them into roles based on their gender. These roles make women not want to achieve jobs in places such as the sciences and other higher education. My whole life I have heard that women are not independent even to this day due to the societal expectations we enforce on women. We enforce biases such as women needing to be beautiful and being frail. They are still mistreated by in many facets of their lives such as sports, media, and education. My own
This segregation not only represses women’s equality but also makes them seem that they are weaker to the public. The public views this as women not being as strong or have the same abilities as men. For example, in baseball women are not only not allowed to play with men but they also cannot play baseball at all. If a woman wants to play baseball they have to play a specially regulated version of it called softball. Segregation in sports makes women feel unequal to men in sports and in physical strength. Mill would argue that this segregation and body searching is causing our society to become weaker. We are repressing the women in our society and by doing so making the human race worse by restraining half the population, women, from their full