Question

How was the life of women in French society?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women not shared in the French Revolution and what short-term impact it had on French women. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they were considered "passive" citizens, forced to rely on men to determine what was best for them. That changed dramatically in theory as there seemingly were great advances in feminism. Feminism emerged in Paris as part of a broad demand for social and political reform. The women demanded equality to men and then moved on to a demand for the end of male domination. Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs, especially the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. However, the Jacobin element in power abolished all the women's clubs in October 1793 and arrested their leaders. The movement was crushed. Devance explains the decision in terms of the emphasis on masculinity in wartime, Marie Antoinette's bad reputation for feminine interference in state affairs, and traditional male supremacy.[1] A decade later the Napoleonic Code confirmed and perpetuated women's second-class status.[2]

Answer 2

• The status of women in French society was miserable and women were considered inferior to men.

• Women of the Third Estate had to work hard to make a living .

• They didn't had the right to education / job training .

• Only some women of the Upper Estates were given education .

• French women also had to look after their families and the household chores.

• Status of the women in France increased after the Revolution and women were active participants in the movements that happened during the revolution .

• But , still they continued to be inferior to man .

• In 1789 when, the French National Constituent Assembly issued 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen' women were exempted from getting rights.

• They were also made passive citizens who had no suffrage by the Constitution of 1791 .

• It was in Early 1940s that the French women gained ' The Right to Vote'.