Feminism

After reading these different stories, "The New Dress", and "A Room of One's Own",by Virginia Woolf, 1927, and "TheIntroduction". All these relate to the topic we are starting to learn, but are familiar with, that is 'Feminism'. Although, we are not familiar when it really started, but based on the readings of Viginia Woolf, I would say it started around 1969, when women started to have different ideas that led them to be heard. BUt it was also by the hand of certain leaders that women were able to play a higher role as men in society.

There is a passage in the story "A Room of One's own" by Virginia Woolf, it said,"Moreover, it is equally useless to ask what might have happened if Mrs Seton and her mother and her mother before her had amassed great wealth and laid it under the foundations of college and librar, because, in the first place ,to earn money was impossible for them, and in the second, had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what money they earned. It is only for the last forty-eiht years that Mrs Seton has had a penny of her own. For all the centuries before that it would have been her husband's property- a thought which, perhaps, may have had its share in keeping Mrs Seton and her mothers off the Stock Exchange." My question for this passage was : Why were women's wealth not considered? why where only men educated? what were the different ways women felt discriminated? There are many questions that can be asked, but by answering these questions is a good way of starting.
Women were not considered to have a fortune because they had all there earnings taken by there husbands to dispose of them as they would like, this was not fair because women deserve what they got after there hard work. Women where not considered to possess importance due to the fact that men where the ownes considered to bring home economic wealth. Men where considered the only ones who could accomplish the hard works, that involved the construction of difficult arquitectural designs, buildings, churches, columns, etc. This is why they received the greater power over women, due to the fact that women where not taken into consideration in accomplishing any of these works. The other problem was that men where the only owns who would get educated, attending colloge where they would become scholars, fellowships, and lectureships, where women didn't achieve any of these professions. Therefore, women's money was used to fund such programs to teach men at different ages. Consequently, by women not being considered superior to men, not receiving education, or any money for their hard works, they felt discriminated by men, women would care what other people think of themselves and this making them feel inferior, and without much knowledge. Although , things will later change for the well being of women when they had different ideas, that made them react to the discriminations, and would work hard to be considered with the same respect as men.