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Daniel Csontos Honors English 11 Periods 5/6 ODD The Role of Women in the 1800's 5 September 2002 Women have always been plagued by the long withstanding myth that they are the inferior sex. In ancient Rome, women were not allowed any freedom; they were not allowed out of the home without their husband's consent. A fourth-century father of the Christian Church once said, "Woman is the gate of the devil, the path of wickedness, the sting of the serpent, in a word a perilous object". In America in the mid to late 1700's, a husband "virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions" (wic.org). However, in the 1800's, women slowly began gaining equality. In the early 1800's, a married woman had one task; to stay home all day and keep the home for her husband. If she was a mother, she would be solely responsible for the children's raising and wellness....

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