Forever, women have been though to be inferior to men. In the United States' early history this was especially true. Women had to fight for everything they have today; in the 1800s they had nothing. Women were thought to be the weaker sex; the mold of the perfect woman was described as a woman who did chores at home. Women had to earn the right to vote, which took more than seventy years of determined work to accomplish. Women also had to prove themselves worthy of what little they got over and over again, like in the Revolutionary War and through the years in their work.

The idea of a perfect woman developed early in the 1800s. What was described as the "cult of true womanhood" was the four most wanted traits in a woman at the time. These were domesticity, purity, piety, and most importantly dedication to...