Wollstonecraft and Women "Is not that government then very defective, and very
unmindful of the happiness of one half of its members
that does not provide for honest, independent women, by
encouraging them to fill respectable stations?”
-Mary Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
1790
Why does Wollstonecraft consider a government that
ignores the happiness of women defective?
✓ It fails to uphold the social contract.
* It is not honest or respectable.
It fails to provide for a separation of powers.
It is not democratic, but rather tyrannical.

The answer is “it fails to uphold the social contract “
Edge 2021