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             In Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft gives a rather lengthy description of how women's rights are being hold back by the "exclusive judges" of society, and men. She criticizes the idea that women are, in the eyes of men, inferior and should be educated accordingly. Wollstonecraft feels that by limiting women's education, the society designed for men to be a "bread winner." The society is becoming weak due to only half of its inhabitants receiving enough education. She also argues that women should be equally treated as man. She said give it chance to women to empower that they can successes. An important secion in her argument that if women receive more equality, it would only improve society. According to Wollstonecraft's tyranny of man, have been bought forward to prove, that the two sexes, in the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very different character; or, to speak explicitly, women are not allowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves the name of virtue, education, right to vote, holding property, divorcing and child custody. By receiving an education, women will help society to move forward rather than remaining where it is at this present moment. She feels that by women not being included in the knowledge of how and why society works, they will not want to cooperate with it. She also mentions that the education will only help to liberate women and improve their lot. .
             However, I came from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard ourselves as beings who we were eventually to be married off, have children, serve the husband for numbers of decades. Other than this I found that there were a lot of things which really oppressed women, such as, If a woman was widowed, she would always have to wear a white sari (costume), eat vegetarian meals, cut her hair short, and never re-marry.


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