Women’s Equal Rights

The spirit of modern philosophy is an outburst of discovery. Rationalism (seventeenth

century) and empiricism (eighteenth century) both relied on human discoveries such as of the
world, of thought, and of humanity in all sorts of conditions. Knowledge, however, was male-
dominated. Mary Wollstonecraft envisioned an education for women.
In her work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft dictated that
women were to be more that just wives and caretakers; they were to educate children, and to
act not as slaves to their husbands, but as companions (Rifkin, 2009).
As technology enters the larger conversation of humanity, students should understand that
education is not just simply browsing the Internet, but it also emphasizes the concept of
progress, which asserts that human beings are capable of improving their constantly changing
environment.