Women's Role In Quakers

Religion plays a big role in terms of society in the history of mankind. Rules, views, ways of life are all deprived from religion of various kinds and almost each one of them puts women below men and never as equals.
Christianity isn’t the only religion or society that look at women differently Protestant women lose the option of religious freedom after marriage. “Protestants also removed the cults of Mary and women saints that gave women strength and comfort” (116). Ancient India didn’t have very happy women either. They were also looked upon as inferior and most of the time looked as Sudras the lowest of the castes. They had a very limited freedom. Their role was only of a caretaker and house wife also to fulfill the wishes of their husband. Muslim women in Saudi are going through a similar situation their women …show more content…
Women had a huge role in the society of Quakers.
With their limited power in the world many women have stepped up to make a better future. Susan B. Anthony was an early leader of the woman suffrage movement, Florence Nightingale an English nurse who some say pioneered modern medicine, Sandra Day O’ Connor was the first women to hold a majority leader of the senate. These are just a few of the many women who have contributed to the world yet religion and society wanted to reduce their roles in life just too common housewives.
These women have shown early Christian views are wrong, women aren’t mindless who are supposed to submit to males. Religion was taught by men and men at that time didn’t view women as valuable as we do today. Lucky we changed we let women into roles within the churches and man have flourished from this