A woman furthering their education in college wasn’t given praise at all in the speech, yet it was a duty of men to further their education. In the article, “Institutional Limits: Christine Ladd-Franklin,
Fellowships, and American Women’s Academic Careers, 1880–1920” by Scott Spillman, he writes about how “women were “thought to be not worthy of being college professors,” it was
“impossible for them to receive equal pay with men in the secondary schools.””. Education was seen as a duty for an American citizen, however women weren’t allowed to have that duty to further their education and receive the same equal benefits as men. This further shows the oppression women received back then, even though they are considered citizens of America, they were deemed as a second class, equality wasn’t present then amongst men and