In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that the Enlightenment was based on the ideal that reason is innate in all human beings, including women.

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In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that the Enlightenment was based on the ideal that reason is innate in all human beings, including women.

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Wollstonecraft believed that women were equally capable of reason and therefore deserving of the same rights as men. She argued that women's inferior education and limited opportunities prevented them from fully realizing their potential, but that they were not inherently less rational than men.

In Her a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft