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Summary Of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women By Mary Wollstonecraft

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In her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft addresses the problem of gender equality, calling for women’s right to be on the same pedestal as men; in a search for equality, her work is historically recognized as the first literary piece on feminism. She defined a society where neither gender, men nor women, were above one another, and where there was equal access to public education in a bigender system where opportunities were presented equally to all. In a whole, Wollstonecraft sought to view females and human beings and not just women as they were often perceived by men to be. Wollstonecraft was a woman living in the late 18th century witnessing the gender inequality between men and women in every walk of life.

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