According to the article “The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)” by Christine de Pisan, it is really important for women to be educated. Christine realized that women might accomplished many good things and bad things, might have done some evil. But good women specially who are educated and wise have the capability to compensate the evil. Women are the backbone of their family and nations. Educating women, societies will make sure that the future nation is strong, cherishing and impartial. A woman tends to be the first mentors in a child’s life. If the woman is educated, she provides her with the essential tools that will help the child to be prepared and ready to be a participative and inquisitive member of the society. An educated woman also
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Uneducated women have fewer rights than men and they live their lives under the direction of men. One of the previous articles we read in this course “Medieval Medical and Scientific Views of Women” by Vern L. Bullough, mentioned two scholars’ thoughts regarding women; one of them was Pluto and the other one was Aristotle. Pluto said that women should remain at home. Aristotle said that women are passive character and men are principle character. Not only these two scholars or other scholars and men in general have denigrated women but also oppressed women for decades. This denigration and oppression towards women are still happening in the developing countries. For example, in Bangladesh girls get married before they turn 16. Parents do not think that their daughters should go to school and at least finish the basic education before they get married. The marriage lives for those girls are not comfortable. They have to listen and obey every word their husbands ask them. If any of those girls stand against their husband’s will, they are being punished either by their husband and husband’s families or the societies and this cycle goes on until they accept to obey their husbands again. If they were educated, they did not have to go through all of this because education women know better than men. As Christine mentioned in the article that men do not want women to be educated because it displeases them that women will know more then they do. In this paper, I will first talk about why it is really important for women to be educated and as the tis topic progresses, I will add how not allowing women to be educated contributes to denigration and oppression of women by
Uneducated women have fewer rights than men and they live their lives under the direction of men. One of the previous articles we read in this course “Medieval Medical and Scientific Views of Women” by Vern L. Bullough, mentioned two scholars’ thoughts regarding women; one of them was Pluto and the other one was Aristotle. Pluto said that women should remain at home. Aristotle said that women are passive character and men are principle character. Not only these two scholars or other scholars and men in general have denigrated women but also oppressed women for decades. This denigration and oppression towards women are still happening in the developing countries. For example, in Bangladesh girls get married before they turn 16. Parents do not think that their daughters should go to school and at least finish the basic education before they get married. The marriage lives for those girls are not comfortable. They have to listen and obey every word their husbands ask them. If any of those girls stand against their husband’s will, they are being punished either by their husband and husband’s families or the societies and this cycle goes on until they accept to obey their husbands again. If they were educated, they did not have to go through all of this because education women know better than men. As Christine mentioned in the article that men do not want women to be educated because it displeases them that women will know more then they do. In this paper, I will first talk about why it is really important for women to be educated and as the tis topic progresses, I will add how not allowing women to be educated contributes to denigration and oppression of women by