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Enlightenment for Women (Before Enlightenment (Men would rule over women,…

- - - - Later, women were involved in salons (philosophers and thinkers meetings in houses and coffee houses), and they were free to participate
        
        Not only in England, but in other countries women fought for rights and to be equal to males as well.
        
        Women Enlightenment Thinkers started to publish writing about their thoughts, host salon meetings, and spread how they felt about equality and rights of women
  - - - Madame Geoffrin hosted salon meetings and helped make the first encyclopedia by giving ideas. She proved that women could as easily do things that men could do.
    - - Abigail helped America through its struggle for independence. She made sure that women's rights were respected. She stood strong for women.
    - - Olympe was an informal writer and social reformer. She felt strongly that in ALL parts of life, women were equal if not better than men. She wrote the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman, and the Female Citizen”.
    - - Mary Wollstonecraft stood up for women's educational rights, and she said that if men were granted freedom of rights, so were women. She published essays for the equality of women, and she inspired a lot of people.