Ap European History DBQ: Women in the scientific revolution.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Scientific Revolution, which was the development of new sciences and technology, and The Age of Enlightenment, which was the so called "age of reason", had sparked women's participation in sciences. Ever since Europe was moving towards the modern world, women had been trying to change their social status from regular housework and staying at home to getting better jobs such as teaching and learning science. Although this was …

…It has stated women should were subjected to lower education and never should go into higher sciences, but when people study the behaviors of women and learn that they are somewhat the same as men, they can take in consideration the possible equality of the participation in science. This truly showed the pros and cons for women and science. (Documents 11, 13) <Tab/> <Tab/><Tab/>