Judith Sargent Murry Women's Rights Analysis

Judith Sargent Murry is not a well-known name in everyday life, but to women activists and historians she was a key part of the women’s rights in the eighteenth century. She was an advocate for women’s right to an education. Judith’s upbringing had a lot to do with her work toward equality. She was raised in a wealthy household where her brothers had an excellent education and she was not given the same opportunities. Judith wrote many manuscripts, essays, and poems throughout her life. One of the best known is "On the Equality of the Sexes" that she published anonymously in 1790 where she argued for the natural equalities of women’s minds and to provide mentally challenging education for girls (Cleary). With Judith Sargent Murray along with many other women activists we as a society and country have come a long way since the eighteenth century, from women not have a formal education to having the same rights as men, today there are more females attending college then men. Judith Sargent Murry was a key component in the right for all women to have an education. Judith grew up in Massachusetts to an elite mercantile family, at a young age she noticed gender inequalities at home …show more content…
At the rightful age of forty she would be found in the study reading and writing, during this time period Judith published many astounding articles and essays about women’s education and the equality among the sexes. These articles include Honora, Martesia, On the Domestic Education of Children, and her widely known essay The Equality of the Sexes. In this essay Judith contradicted that common belief that women lack the ability to reason. She states that by nature women and men both have the same mental capacity but what happens after birth effects what they know, at this time boys are taught at a young age to me ambitious and girls are taught domestic work. Judith