She confers about their many strengths and how they exceeded any expectations men had for women during that time. Berkin explains how women were tougher than they were known to be, were courageous, strong both mentally and physically, and immensely intelligent. Readers may wonder though, while Berkin focused so much on what women were moving towards in terms of equality, why they never really voiced a desire to be written as equals into the Constitution towards the end of the war. Abigail Adams did attempt to persuade her husband, John Adams, to have women written into the Constitution, but she never pushed quite
She confers about their many strengths and how they exceeded any expectations men had for women during that time. Berkin explains how women were tougher than they were known to be, were courageous, strong both mentally and physically, and immensely intelligent. Readers may wonder though, while Berkin focused so much on what women were moving towards in terms of equality, why they never really voiced a desire to be written as equals into the Constitution towards the end of the war. Abigail Adams did attempt to persuade her husband, John Adams, to have women written into the Constitution, but she never pushed quite