3. Educated Women Have Weak Womb
In the book ‘Sex In Education; Or, A Fair Chance For The Girls (1873)’, Harvard Medical School professor Edward Clarke, explicated the reasons behind his idea that women should not be educated. He rarefied that woman shoulder a responsibility to forward the human race and women were inferior to men (in every aspect), pursuing high education (especially during menstruating) that was beyond their bird brains would end up damaging their brains. For Clarke education was clearly not meant for women and that they should just stick to giving births. Publication of the book led to several debates and people who were against women education, carried the book around like a bible. Eventually, the absurd theories were rejected as more and more women started piling into schools and universities.
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