Women's Rights In The 19th Century

The Rights of women have definitely evolved over the past centuries. Women went from being treated as an object, not a person, to gaining many rights. They have evolved to be entitled to the right to vote, the right to work, the right to own land, and the basic fundamental rights that men have received. As the world becomes more modernized, women still want more rights, they want to be treated as an equal to men. In the United States, women want equal pay in the work force as men, when their employers feel as if they should not. But, the following facts and arguments are going to be more focused on women’s rights in the past, during the 17th century, and how the Enlightenment played into these rights. The book entitled, The American Eve, states …show more content…
Making Women Modern, says that “The nineteenth century revolution in health was far more pervasive; its advocates were not only great men of science, but ordinary men and women who promulgated and implemented new attitudes toward public and personal cleanliness” (Tylor, 490). The portions from these books shows how the role of women increased from the 17th century. In the 17th century, women were treated as objects, as opposed to humans with the basic rights of life, they were taught that their …show more content…
And the Enlightenment didn't end in 1800, as standard accounts say, but continued into the 19th century and beyond. As if to blur the old boundaries, Conrad often speaks of Enlightenment rather than the Enlightenment” (Whose Enlightenment Was It, 1). The original goals of the Enlightenment, were clearly defined throughout history, one of those goals being individual rights. The Enlightenment thinkers believed that all men and women should be treated as equals, not treated greater or less depending on their social status. As previously stated, women gained more rights during the nineteenth century, then they did during the seventeenth centuries. The Enlightenment thinkers did not expect nor intend for the Enlightenment and this new change to carry on for so long, but during this time is when women began to gain more and more rights. The Enlightenment sparked the equality of