Examples of women role b4 RW
Before the Revolutionary war, women’s role and rights were strongly inferior to men. Men hold all the power to make decisions, however married women lack of legal rights. The law strongly disagreed to recognize that the women’s rights in every aspects, such as political and economics in the eighteenth century. Women cannot officially vote in the congress until 1920. In other words, women were not allowed to serve in elected office or in any other official political capacity. Invariably, men were supposed to be the head of household and women plays an important …show more content…
However in some rare cases, many women pretended to be the male soldier and fought in the war. There were some famous female soldiers that went to war with the men, such as Deborah Sampson. She fought under the alias of Robert Shurtliff in New York, 1781. She served for almost over a year before she was discovered. Another brave woman was Margaret Corbin, she went into the war, fought with her husband and the other 600 American soldiers as to defend the Fort Washington in New York. “These female soldiers usually disguised themselves as men by cutting their hair, binding their breasts with bandages and adopting masculine names (Norton, …show more content…
People started to believed in the intensive styles of child teaching and more systematic and prolonged forms of education. The main maternal nurture would be a key to shape children 's moral character (Mintz, 4). Society started to feel and saw the education of women were one of the way to prepare the success for the country; women education were not mainly for the women themselves, but to make them to educates the future generations into a well structured citizens. These citizens were expected to be civic leaders that will make sure the peace of the country. Since women were going to play a crucial role in forming children 's character, it was essential that they be properly prepared for this task (Mintz,