Women's Rights In The Mid 1700s

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In today’s society, the fight for equality amongst the sexes is an ongoing problem. Societal groups such as feminists, have now risen and are doing everything in their efforts to make women feel just as good as they feel a man does. These women feel they are entitled to all a male is and should be treated no greater or less than. However, in the Mid 1700’s in the colonies, women would have no such idea as to even dare think of that. The women of the Mid 1700s did not have many rights. Women were seen as nothing more than mere objects. They were to be controlled in the age of enlightenment. Men took the role of the puppeteer and women took the role of their puppets. For a long time up until the 1960’s, women were seen as the “second sex”, and

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