Enlightenment Era

Lack of Women's Education

1694

In 1694 an English writer by the name of Mary Astell published A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. This book had addressed the lack of educational opportunities for women. In other writing after, Mary had used Enlightenment arguments about government to criticize their unequal relationships between men and women who were married.

Lack of Women's Education

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft published an essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. In this essay, she had disagreed with Rousseau that women’s education should be secondary to men’s. She had argued that women, like men, as well need education to become virtuous and useful.