Because her father was an alcoholic, Mary Wollstonecraft took over caring for her family when she was young. She educated herself. Wollstonecraft tried writing for a living. Edmund Burke attacked the French people for revolting against their King. Wollstonecraft wrote the first response to Burke's attack, Vindication to the Rights of Men. In it she defends a Republic as opposed to a Monarchy. Her term "man" mean humans. Wollstonecraft used "manly" to mean "rational." Her Vindication of the rights of Woman explains sexism as systematic and
structural.
Through education society trains women to be immoral and irrational. Meritocracy the rise through merits and talents. Soldiers are like women, because both are disciplined and educated in the same way, following orders when they are given. Wollstonecraft argues that, no matter what gender a human being is, he or she can be educated in the same way as the opposite sex and then will act the same way as a person of the opposite gender. Wollstonecraft argues for a revolution in Women manners. Women take advantage of the power inequities because it is easier than working hard. Wollstonecraft says that women should not behave as if they are inferior to men but should instead behave as equals. I have never understood why people have fear women playing major roles in business. How free can a person be if he or she cannot chose how to live?
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