The right of women by Olympe De Gouges was published in 1791. It talks about how French revolution took off women rights. She explains the differences between women and men rights. De Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Women points out that women were subjected to the same injustices that the Declaration of the Rights of Man detailed. De Gouges also lays a structure by which men and women may exist on a more equal basis with her “Form for a Social Contract between Man and Woman.”

The author of this reading is Olympe De Gouges. She is writing this  because for her the French revolution never put attention to women rights; they were only focus on men rights. She also was writing this because she was a woman that cares about female rights and as woman she thought she had to put a stop to the discrimination of women.Writing those articles she made clear of how women needed to be treated.

One of the main arguments of this reading is the equality between women and men. Gouges wanted to show the French government that they both were born equal, that both of them have the right to do the same thing. Things like voting, being president or work in the same place.  As the reading states “Woman, wake up! The tocsin of reason is being heard throughout the universe; recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudice, fanaticism, superstition, and lies. The flaming torch of truth has dispersed all the clouds of folly and usurpation” (27).  Meaning that she wanted to wake women up from that fear , she wanted to let them know that they have to fight for the rights.

the strong part about the reading was that the author had the bravery to fight for women rights and had the declaration of men in her hands as proof that women were discriminated and weren’t treated as men .The weak part was that  Olympe did not have enough potential to keep fighting with the government about the equality of women and men. And also she only mentioned the articles but she didn’t implemented any steps  to reach her  goals.

Yes, it is successful in conveying this message because that’s the only way she had to communicate with those women who were afraid of fighting for their rights. Those articles gave women the brave to fight and to know their rights. That was the best way to let women know that they are free and that as men they have the right of freedom prosperity, security and specially resistance to oppression.

Looking back to 2015 the progress has been huge. Now women are more independent and know exactly what their rights are. Women now can have the same job as men, and not only that, women are treated equally as men. Women now are more successful and more educated, before they did not have the opportunity attend to school. Woman had to stay at home and take care of their family,  now woman can do several things, they can work, study and take care of their family. Because men are more strong doesn’t mean women can’t do the things they do, women only need the motivation  and the passion to do things, once they have both values they just need to work on. Women now are considered as they deserve.