Renaissance Women During the Renaissance, women were not seen as educated or independent. Renaissance women were the shadow of man. They were considered more for their delicacy and beauty than for their intelligence. Their main role in life during that time was to get married, have children, and take care of the home. Despite these facts, some women have managed to break out of these statistics. I believe that these women of that time should be honored simply for the fact that they made a name for themselves, and not just for their appearance. This is significant since the fight for equality has been long and treacherous, and some are unaware that it began long ago. As far as we know, women back then were not known for being intelligent: they did domestic work and nothing else. I will first explain how women were viewed by men and what they were valued for. After laying out the facts about it, I will explain the path to equality and how it got there. This was driven in part by women distributing their own literary works. I will provide examples of works by women that made it clear how hard it was for them and how they should not be looked down upon. In the text "The Humanistic Tradition", we are given the idea that women were only good for housework and were known exclusively for their beauty. Directly quoted: "Women's occupation in the Renaissance remained limited to service tasks, such as obstetrics and midwifery." Once a woman married in the Renaissance, her opportunities became limited because the man was considered superior. Women were so despised that they were believed to be too slow and delicate to bear the responsibility of ra...... middle of paper ...... kept quiet simply because of the superiority of men, unlike Lucrieta and Christina. The fact that women were kept in their homes to clean confirms that they did little to change this stereotype. Fortunately, much has changed since the Renaissance. I can't imagine how exhausting it must have been for women to constantly live in the shadow of someone who didn't create them: men. Work cited De Pisan, Christine. "The book of the city of women." University of Hanover. NP Network. 29 October 2012. .Deslauriers, Marguerite, "Lucrezia Marinella", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Forthcoming URL = .Fiero, Gloria. The humanistic tradition. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 34-39. Press.