What Was The Role Of Women In The 1800s

For instance, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in “Emile,” that women shouldn’t participate in outside events just be a housewife. Women were more important to society as a mother and wives not as a political role. He made it very clear that women weren’t to know and learn the same things that men did. Unlike others who believed that the tradition walls of no involvement by women needed to be torn down. The Enlightenment writers made is so that women didn’t have any property and education but many people stepped in to stop the ideas against women. Like Denis Diderot, Mary Wollstonecraft and many more. The participation of women in the salon culture, started to become very popular during the era. Salons gave women the a space to write on issues concerning