Susan B Anthony In The 19th Century

In the first half of the 19th century, even though a few women such as Susan B. Anthony started social reform activities, majority of women were restricted by a strict female virtue consensus. Most of them were recognized as domestic workers with their legal rights largely incorporated into the men’s in their families. Before the 1860s, many middle-class white women received education, but mostly were only enough for child nurturing. Rarely would a woman attain equal education as men; however, she would still be considered as intellectually inferior to men in the society. In the early 1800s, most women’s primary concerns were family affairs. Girls and women’s primary education were to learn to manage new domestic devices such as stoves and