My goal in this paper is to discuss the main ideas in John Stuart Mill's “The Subjection of Women” and the then and now relevance of those ideas. The women rights were always debated in the last centuries, including The Victorian Age. During this age women began to gain more legal rights, but they were still lacking in contrast to men’s rights. One of the people that debated on the gender equality was John Stuart Mill, a British writer and philosopher in the Victorian Age. In this book Mill analyzed
even encourage the oppression of women. The oppression of women is something so ingrained into society that, especially during the 18th-19th century, many people felt it was the way of nature because they literally had never known anything different. However, the emergence of feminist writings in the late 18th century provided evidence that not everyone agreed with this ‘natural’ oppression of women. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill argued for the rights of women in their philosophical writings
In John Stuart Mill's book The Subjection of Women, Mill respond the quote by arguing that female equality has denied many women social status and political rights. He points out that when a wife rely on her husband to take control of her and provide her with all of her necessity, then it’s basically be consider as slavery because she is living under her husband rights not her own. This shows that women are more inferior to slave because when slaves finished their duties, they have life outside of