Jane Murray Equality Of The Sexes Summary
I am going to be talking about discussion topic number two, which will be based on my reading of the.
After reading through the Equality of the Sexes, and looking up countless word definitions, I came to the assumption that Murray believed that women were not allowed to strive for self-worth and follow the path of knowledge in her time. In the eyes of the world, a woman is seen as “A weak, servile, an inferior soul”, and that they are robbed of their power to improve. Murray understood that there are differences of the mind, those who have a passion for knowledge, and those who are of inactive souls which mingle with their mud. However, she described that the assumed differences between man and woman, are those of absolute superiority and of inferiority. If you are not a man then you are an imbecile, is what people believed in her time. Two of the most defining quotes from Murray, that explain these …show more content…
There are cases in which women wish to work in a world, but most of the society still believes that the mother should stay and care for her children. However, even gender rules like the mother’s job to care for her children are being removed. We are starting to see the gender roles of the past beginning to fade away, as women and men both work, and the world definitely does not see women as imbeciles as described by Murray. I personally believe that the differences of gender were artificially real for a time because of self-fulfilling prophecies. People kept pressing these harsh lies upon women for so long, that they started believing it themselves. “they eat, they drink, and their work is done”, this is how Murray presented an image of what the women look like, once they had settled into these lies. Our world today has immensely changed since Murray’s time, and I think that it has changed for the better in some ways, and for the worse in
After reading through the Equality of the Sexes, and looking up countless word definitions, I came to the assumption that Murray believed that women were not allowed to strive for self-worth and follow the path of knowledge in her time. In the eyes of the world, a woman is seen as “A weak, servile, an inferior soul”, and that they are robbed of their power to improve. Murray understood that there are differences of the mind, those who have a passion for knowledge, and those who are of inactive souls which mingle with their mud. However, she described that the assumed differences between man and woman, are those of absolute superiority and of inferiority. If you are not a man then you are an imbecile, is what people believed in her time. Two of the most defining quotes from Murray, that explain these …show more content…
There are cases in which women wish to work in a world, but most of the society still believes that the mother should stay and care for her children. However, even gender rules like the mother’s job to care for her children are being removed. We are starting to see the gender roles of the past beginning to fade away, as women and men both work, and the world definitely does not see women as imbeciles as described by Murray. I personally believe that the differences of gender were artificially real for a time because of self-fulfilling prophecies. People kept pressing these harsh lies upon women for so long, that they started believing it themselves. “they eat, they drink, and their work is done”, this is how Murray presented an image of what the women look like, once they had settled into these lies. Our world today has immensely changed since Murray’s time, and I think that it has changed for the better in some ways, and for the worse in