Review Of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners", Wollstonecraft had written in A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. Even though it is over two centuries late, now is as good as a time as any, to break through these stereotypes and promote women in a healthy manner to have a sizeable representation in the engineering workforce. Another quote from her book: A Vindication of the Rights of Men goes like: "Virtue can only flourish amongst equals". Thus, if we require a significant proportion of women in the engineering workforce, it is critical that we provide them with equal opportunity in every step of the funnel instead of simply adding an artificial reservation in firms to force them to hire women for the sake of diversity. An ideal society would have an equal number of women enrolled for primary and secondary education,

She suggested that the current state of women was not created due to the Biblical story of Eve being guilty of getting mankind banished from the Garden of Eden because of tasting the forbidden fruit. She neither believed that women were biologically programmed only for pleasuring their husbands and bearing their children. Mary discovered that the key factor was the lack of education. This is a classic example of the confusion between correlation and causality. While the ignorant majority of the society thinks that women's lack of achievements in the fields of science is correlated to their quantitative under-representation in number of enrolments in higher education institutes, possibly both of them being related to a different handicap which may be theological or biological as discussed above. The trust however is, what Mary correctly discovers, that it is actually causation at play here, and the cause for women not making waves in various fields of studies is because of their limited access to