Colonial Women's Education

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By deciding question 2 I knew how getting an education is hard nowadays. Most children drop out of school or most children don’t have enough money to attend college. The ones who attend college either pass because they actually try or most students drop out of college after the first semester because it was to difficult for them. By researching about this topic I came across some important information. By getting an education while being a woman during the colonial or early national period you had to be wealthy to attend to convent school to learn the basics of reading and writing or be taught by governess. Middle class they could only afford to teach their own children and lower class normally did not get any education. Woman’s job options …show more content…
Their rights were they did not get encouraged to get an education, they obtained to the house and family, did not have the right to vote, after marriage women did not have the right to sign contracts, have their own property, nor were they allowed to keep their own wages. Most women during the colonial did not have many rights. They did not have a choice in anything. Women were the back burner, they didn’t have a say, nor did they get to have a professional career because men had more authority over women. If you think about it now women have the choice to get married, attend college, say what they feel, and women have the right to vote. Women have more authority now then ever; it is nice to have freedom of speech and no one to tell women what to do. By being a women now looking back at it I know it must have been truly hard to not be able to do much like the men. After all the law changes it has came equalized for both genders and now men and women can do so much together or they can do it separately but it is legal now. We as women have a lot of rights to do as much as we can and get the best career for our families and ourselves. By all the research I have done it fascinates me to know what rights women had in the early national and knowing they did not have much shows what the government has done for

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