How Did The Revolutionary War Deserve Women's Rights

Women Deserve Their Rights
In the 18th century women were basically deprived of their right as the average American. They were to be the women that society saw them, regardless if they were content with it or not. Women were inferior to men and had to obey the demands of their husbands who had the right to punish them by law.
The Revolutionary War has given women roles that that they probably would not have if the war did not happen. They provided for the soldiers and some even buried their husbands leaving them to take care of the family alone while copping with the lost. Some were given rural jobs such as cooking, teaching, or even spying.
Women were limited to the amount of education they could receive. Education was not a primary goal for women, but secondary. Women were provided with inadequate education, all they needed to know was how

to carry out their wifely duties, men on the other hand had a better opportunity to be more educated than women. Women either had less knowledge educationally or in common sense. Most women thought that the only way they can get a man was by wearing fine clothes and expensive jewelry. “Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as men instruments of pleasure” (8-8). All women knew was beauty and no brains, and that’s all they needed to attract a man. Resulting in the lack of education of women, it was taking a negative effect on the children. “With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education” (5-1).
Marriage was something that most people saw as necessary for a path to a healthy life.

Wives had to obey their husbands and do their wifely duties. Sex was not meant for pleasure for the women but to be submissive to their husbands. Most wives would wear rags and look as if they have bad personal hygiene in public, but in the home she wears things that pleases her husband eyes. Generally, married women were not even allowed outside of the house without her husband. In the eighteenth century if you were married it was best to keep it that way because getting divorced still gave men rights over women “He has so framed the laws of divorce, and in the case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the child shall be given” (8-12). Basically, if a husband and wife were separated if it was in his will to have custody of the child, he will. No matter how the mother felt about it. Men were the head of the household so whenever something happened he was the one that the people held accountable. Single women had more freedom than the married ones, single women actually had it good because they were their own

person.

Women did not have the right to vote, own land nor have her own identity apart from her husband. They had no voice when it came down to politics. Abigail Adams said it best in the letter to her husband telling him no to forget about the women “We will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation” (5-1). Women were expected to obey law that they had no right to agree or disagree which was biased to them. Although, majority of women wanted to right to vote Catherine Beecher a famous writer saw otherwise. She did not think that women needed the right to vote, having the right to choose who to marry being a wife, and a mother was enough.
Women were restricted from a lot of things in life especially the married ones. They were perceived as the weaker vessel, but powerful women such as Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Abigail Adams, etc. pushed for equality for women. They believed they deserved the right to exercise their rights just as well as the men.