readding connection #2

                Has the role of women changed from that of the women during the scientific revolution? The scientific revolution was a very important period in history. Some of the most famous discoveries where thought of during this time period. These discoveries were made solely by men, unlike today.  Women living during the time of the scientific revolution played a different role than they do today.  The majority of the women were not educated as well as the men.  If a woman’s family was either rich enough or important enough, the girl could attend early childhood education, but after that, she would be forced to learn the role of the women.  This consisted of cooking, cleaning, and bearing children.  If the woman was lucky, she might be able to go on to a slightly higher form of education.  Meanwhile, the males in the class were able to continue learning.  From the start, women were at a disadvantage; they had not nearly as much education as the men, and if a woman came up with a revolutionary idea that could change the views of the society, no one would listen to her.  Women’s opinions were not valued as much as a man’s.  What we do not know today is that is possible that someone could have listened to a women’s idea and stole it knowing she has no right in the science world.

                Nicole Beck says in her article that in today's world women are supposed to be equal to men and everyone is supposed to have equal opportunities, while this is true and more and more women are becoming influential figures throughout the world from business to computers has the woman’s roll really changed since the scientific revolution? When you watch television and commercial for a food product comes on who is cooking the dinner? The woman, the same goes for cleaning supplies and any other product along these lines. While times have changed since the scientific revolution and women are given more opportunities to succeed in life the media and most of society still portrays women stereotypically as they were back in the scientific revolution. Adena Young explains in her article that times have not changed spite the fact that women are given more of an opportunity to succeed, she claims that still in today’s world women are not taken as seriously as men and society still have a negative portrayal toward women.  We have to wonder if women really play a different role than that they did during the scientific revolution? 

Works Cited

Beck, Nicole. "The Rapid Changes in Women's Roles from 1900 to 1920." Associated Content. 9 Dec. 2005. 23 Oct. 2008 .

Young, Adena. "The Negative Portrayal of Women." Mind and Body. 23 Oct. 2008 .