Women of the seventeenth and eighteenth century lived in a world where they were in different position. But, they were far from powerless. As women tried to defy and create who they were, they were fighting the battle to do so. Obstacles were one of many things they were faced with. Freedom was traded for education. They needed their education to learn many things that may benefit them to work at aside from a housewife, something more outside of the home. The male dominated their women in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. However, there were some remarkable, key women whom played a huge part for a political and social system that would help women from men. Historical women helped lay the bricks down, paving the way for the…show more content… She was the wife of a continental congressman, John Adams. She would try to pave the way for women through her husband’s role. Abigail would write her own husband, she would tell him women needed more rights granted. In a time when the new nations government was being re structured, she thought what better time to change the way for women? “I long to hear that you have declared an independency - and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands” (Adams & Cranch, np). Her thoughts were as follows: women shall not have to act in accordance to laws that do not identify them. Women were not particularly protected, as nothing they did or said would be recognized, why would protection of them matter? And that was her argument to her husband. Women were pushed to rebel against and hope for the change. John Adam’s response was what they knew, that men were the rulers, men were the authority. He felt they could not repeal the system in play for that. He proved that there was no intention to pass any power to the women of society. To overcome it demands the exercise of a present and accuracy of judgment in distinguishing the false from the real, that falls to a lot of few even of the stronger sex” (Adams & Adams, p. xxiv). Abigail Adams knew the change she wanted not only for herself but for all women were limited. She did not let the doubt stop her from her
