Lesson 1: Women are just as valuable as men in society

Even from the start of the Bible with Adam and Eve, we get an idea that women exist for men’s entertainment . And for most of human history, they have existed as the second sex. Wollstonecraft says that in order to have a fair society, this notion needs to change.  

Her first proposal on how to do this is for women to have better representation. One way to do this would be for women to have a bigger voice in literature. She argues that because men have always been able to show their view on women, this enabled them to perpetuate the idea that women are inferior to men.