A woman’s education consisted of learning how to care for a family. A supporting quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau says, “The education of women should always be relative to that of men. To please, to be useful to us, to make us love and esteem them, to educate us when young, to take care of us when grown up, to advise, to console us, to render our lives easy and agreeable; these are the duties of women always, and what they should be taught in their infancy.” Today’s French women are allowed to attend the same amount of schooling as today’s men, and can receive a higher education if they feel compelled
A woman’s education consisted of learning how to care for a family. A supporting quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau says, “The education of women should always be relative to that of men. To please, to be useful to us, to make us love and esteem them, to educate us when young, to take care of us when grown up, to advise, to console us, to render our lives easy and agreeable; these are the duties of women always, and what they should be taught in their infancy.” Today’s French women are allowed to attend the same amount of schooling as today’s men, and can receive a higher education if they feel compelled