From 1759 to 1797, she was a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism. One of the reasons her pronouncements on the subject remain challenging is that her reflections on the status of the female sex were part of an attempt to come to a comprehensive understanding of human relations within a civilization increasingly governed by acquisitiveness and consumption. Her first publication was on the education of daughters. Where she went on to write about politics, history and various aspects of philosophy in a number of different genres that included critical reviews, translations, pamphlets, and novels. Which was known for her Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The inferior education women receive is directly responsible for their subordinate status and their paramount concern of cultivating their physical beauty and charm instead. Their education is fitful and sometimes irrelevant. They do not learn anything of seriousness or substance, and even if they do it is not considered necessary for their lives. At boarding schools, where they are confined with other girls their age, they learn cunning, immodesty, sentimentality, and irrationality. Their bodies are not allowed to grow strong because they are forced to stay indoors. Overall, female education is so different from male education that it results in women who are ignorant and indolent. Reform therefore is necessary; they should attend school with boys, have physical exercise, learn the same subjects as boys, and live with their families instead of boarding schools. They should be allowed to enter some professions that they train for. This will result in the development of their reason, virtue, and modesty and will free them from their physical and mental shackles. For example she has once said, "But I still insist, that not only the virtue, but the knowledge of the two sexes should be the same in nature, if not in degree, and that women, considered not only as moral, but rational creatures, ought to endeavour to acquire human virtues or perfections by the same means as men, instead of being educated like a fanciful kind of half being, one of Rousseau's wild
The inferior education women receive is directly responsible for their subordinate status and their paramount concern of cultivating their physical beauty and charm instead. Their education is fitful and sometimes irrelevant. They do not learn anything of seriousness or substance, and even if they do it is not considered necessary for their lives. At boarding schools, where they are confined with other girls their age, they learn cunning, immodesty, sentimentality, and irrationality. Their bodies are not allowed to grow strong because they are forced to stay indoors. Overall, female education is so different from male education that it results in women who are ignorant and indolent. Reform therefore is necessary; they should attend school with boys, have physical exercise, learn the same subjects as boys, and live with their families instead of boarding schools. They should be allowed to enter some professions that they train for. This will result in the development of their reason, virtue, and modesty and will free them from their physical and mental shackles. For example she has once said, "But I still insist, that not only the virtue, but the knowledge of the two sexes should be the same in nature, if not in degree, and that women, considered not only as moral, but rational creatures, ought to endeavour to acquire human virtues or perfections by the same means as men, instead of being educated like a fanciful kind of half being, one of Rousseau's wild