18th And 19th Century Research Paper

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Women’s place in society today has changed since the women from 18th to 19th centuries during the Romantic period. Women from the 18th to 19th century were housewives while their husbands are at work, but now women can work when their husbands are at work. Women have the same amount of rights now to have an education than before. Both men and women can work in the same office and building. Romantic feminists showed their feelings about lives of women. Today’s modern society, working moms goes to work in any companies, businesses, and others.
Back in the 18th to 19th centuries, women have argued that they need to have more education than the just basic education of how to get a husband. “The main curriculum of women’s education centered on helping women attract husbands and to that end, taught them how to dress and behave rather than how to think” (Romantic Feminism). This quote tells us that women during that period were to only learn how to use their body to get a man's attention. I feel that women were mistreated because of misunderstanding Eve from Genesis when she took a fruit from the tree that God has told them not to eat from. Today’s modern society, women can get their education from grades of pre-k to college and can learn any kind of education that interested them.
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During the 18th to 19th centuries, women that have good behavior gets picked by their future-in-laws for their son. “Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace,” (Wollstonecraft, 3). Women were even taught to stay out of Husbands’ way and let the leader of the household take charge of all the events happening in the house. Today, women can work while their husbands are at work and children of both girls and boys can go to school or