Summary Of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

Staying with topic of discrimination and the rights of individuals, is that of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Although Wollstonecraft wrote about the issues that plagued females that limited their privileges, she also acknowledged that with these privileges also came a responsibility and anticipated a change (Van Camp, 2014). Wollstonecraft was a woman without a background in a traditional learning environment and therefore sought the commonality between logic and learning from instruction in the quest to find liberty and virtue (Van Camp, 2014). The commonality and link between these is that essentially liberty is freedom and freedom has the ability to lead to happiness as well as to find what is good in an individual thus virtue, if liberties are not given to women in the form of logic and education there lacks of freedom to find ones virtue (Powell, 1996). Jim Powell elaborates by quoting Wollstonecraft, “Wollstonecraft called for eliminating obstacles to the advancement of women, “Liberty is the

It is of the opinion, that the missed opportunities can be in a woman’s career, both potentially obtaining a job or being passed by for a promotional opportunity. There is also the thought that Wollstonecraft suggests that educated women would even be better wives and mothers to their children (Van Camp, 2014). However, it seems there is something bigger than that being lost a sense of dignity and respect in how a woman is viewed in society as a whole; being an individual that has something to offer with the same kind of importance and ideologies as anyone else from the opposite gender. Barbara Matera elaborates, “Without education, these women are powerless, and in many places, governments are fully aware that education is power, and this is why they suppress women’s right to education. (Matera, 2015, para.