Setting The Stage For Moving On (based on 'a Vindication of the Rights of Women'

It seems that despite all the progress we have accomplished in technology, society is still behind on how they perceive women.  It allows the man to be promiscuous but not the women.  In Genesis 2:22, it states "Then the LORD God made woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man."  This attitude of bringing the woman to the man has prevailed till now.  Women are "made slaves", (p68), and on questioning why they were created, the conclusion becomes "to enable man to acquire the noble privilege of reason, the power of discerning good from evil, whilst we lie down in the dust from whence we were taken, never to rise again."  Women in general have to multi task; be a wife, a friend, a housekeeper, a lover and a mother while also holding out a career.  This is why they often don't have the time to "rise" especially the girls who "have been weakly educated...and are left by their parents without any provision.."  This automatically puts the wife on an unequal footing in the relationship, and may result in her harboring bitter feelings towards the husband, as she feels controlled and dependent on him.  Ultimately, it is every person's dream, man or women, to feel financially independent.  With financial independence, confidence grows, and with that more achievements are reached. "How much more respectable a woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty", (103).   However, in the work place, we find that many women earn less than their men counterparts, although they might be doing a better job. Is it because subconsciously, even women, feel they need to be taken care of by men?  If this is all they have ever known, then it will take "some time to convince women that they act contrary to their real interest on an enlarged scale..(49).  Time has shown us that it has been a continuous and unending struggle for women to break free from the "rooted prejudices" that chain them.  They also need to believe that there is a higher calling than marriage, and once married, the marriage should be based on her personal growth as well not just her husband's.  This idea will eventually sink in the minds of women, as long as they continue to be "rationally educated." (41)