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What was the main argument in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"?

  • Women need education for equality

  • Women should focus on motherhood

  • Women are naturally inferior to men

  • Women should not work outside the home

Answer

In "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but they appear to be so because they lack education. She believed that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and that a social order founded on reason would benefit everyone.
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