As the regular form of women equality progressed, women work towards a higher degree of freedom and gender equality. Through their efforts, women began to take a more leading role in the areas of self-restraint, civil order, and education. Women fought against the persecution caused by the disturbance it carry out on their families. “American women in the early nineteenth century began to express their awareness of the problems that women themselves faced in a male-dominated society. (pg.3)” They felt pained from traditional restrictions as well as a new set of guidelines that had begun from the change of the family. Women were expected to focus entirely on the home and raising their children. They were expected to leave the labor and finances
