1. Work, Education, and Equality Ch. 8-2

2. According to Plato: if both sexes were to make equal contributions to society, they should get equal education Not quite what people followed: Middle Ages, only a minority of people educated: upper class men, clergy Most viewed human nature predetermined at birth 18 th C, European Enlightenment begins to change this thinking Education & experience applied equally

3. Mary Wollstonecraft: Pioneer of Gender Equality First modern feminist writer? Self-taught A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) Women’s lack of learning opportunities  unable to fulfill potential, remaining enslaved to men Argued for equal educationpages 274-275

4. Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character Page 276 Mrs. John Sandford

5. The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Page 277-278