Many aspects of today’s modern society were fueled by the Enlightenment such as the notion of constantly questioning everything around you or in the article’s words thinking “skeptically about causes and effects” and to “not take any assertion or truth on faith, blindly following the authority of others”.  Also, the urge for one to “trust [his or her] own judgments and [his or her] own senses” is an idea I apply every test that I take.  Although this is a small example I believe it expresses this idea perfectly; when taking a test teachers and professors almost always mention that if you are second guessing yourself on a question, it is wise to choose your original answer thus again enforcing that we should trust in our initial judgments.  Another aspect of modernity that was born in the Enlightenment was the shift of reliance for truth from divine revelation to “human forms of knowledge: science, statistics, history, [and] literature”.  The new-found “sense of equality of all human beings” that triggered the “demand for universal human rights” is the aspect that I would like to focus on in this response.  During the Enlightenment, the argument of whether or not “women were just as entitled to develop and exercise their minds as their male counterparts” rather than being limited to a life centered around childbearing and child-rearing.  Women began gathering at ‘salons’ where they would discuss intellectual matters with one another and they also began writing novels.  Specifically, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, was a well known Enlightenment woman writer, as well as a Mexican nun, who “became an eloquent advocate of the write of women to education and a life of the mind”.  The idea of women’s rights, birthed during the Enlightenment era was carried into modern day, now known as feminism.  Advocates of this movement stood and continue to stand for equal pay for men and women, equal political rights (such as women’s suffrage” and the extinction of the idea that women exist only to bear and then care for children.  There are countless numbers of organizations today that still fight for equality among women and men, specifically the National Organization for Women which was created in the 1960’s.  This organization was a vital factor in the passing of the 19th amendment which no longer allowed the denial to vote based on sex. The fight for equal treatment between men and women has been ongoing since the idea was introduced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.