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The Enlightenment And Gender Roles

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The Enlightenment was a reshaping of Europe's political, philosophical and scientific model during the 17th century. This was a time of rehashing old customs and creating new ones. Many philosophical thinkers challenged the boundaries set by tradition led mostly in France and England, the most powerful countries at the time. Even though the Enlightenment created many new and unheard of rules were created but mainly one ideology stayed the same, gender roles. Even though there were many female scientists who made breakthroughs in the fields of chemistry, astronomy, biology, botany, physics and medicine they were hardly recognized and still were expected to be “in the household.” When a woman received a doctorate or even qualified for a university

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