Society also held the belief that intense physical or intellectual activity would be injurious to the delicate female biology and reproductive system. As a result, women were taught to refrain from pursuing any serious education.

Instead, women were considered merely objects of beauty. They were looked upon as intellectually and physically inferior to men. (And some would stay this is still the case.)

This belief in women’s inferiority to men was further reinforced by organized religion. How so? By preaching strict and well-defined sex roles.

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