Just a little history of woman FYI

In many places woman were once property, owned by fathers and then husbands.   That is why at marriage they were "given away."  Like the title to a car or the deed to a house, ownership was being transferred. 

A Woman was once pretty much their husband's domestic servant and sexual toy, she didn't have much say in what she could do by day or by night, because she really did not have an identity of her own.  Women who complained to their own mothers were told in no uncertain terms to return to the beast, they had made their bed so go lie in it.

Now of course there were many wonderful unions full of love and respect way back when, but if a woman was stuck in a brutal relationship, there was nothing that she could do, she had been "given away" and could not go back home.  She couldn't get a job, because she didn't have an education, girls didn't go to school once upon a time.

So what's my point in all this?  Just to say that to study the history of women should be fascinating and for young woman, eye opening.  Everything we can do today we couldn't always do.  The choices that we can make today were not options for our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, or even our mothers.

Being able to tell my daughter and grand daughter that they can do anything is not something women coming of age in the 1900's 1920's, 1950's  even the 1970's would hear from their mothers.  The expectation was that a woman would get married and stay at home taking care of house and family.  Today this is a viable option, today it is a choice.

If we don't study history we don't know, and to not know is a very scary thing.  We are where we are because of what came before us.  We can't escape our history, we should embrace our history, and we should learn from our history.  They say that history repeats itself, and I believe it does if you deny it.  I don't want to go back.  I don't want to be someone's property, I don't want to be considered insignificant, I don't want to not be able to choose, and I don't want to tell my daughter or grand daughter that they are limited because they are female.

Rosemary