It gave women the ability to conduct experiments to prove difficult ideas and give them a broader knowledge of science. This was positive for women, but with there lack of family time and basic housework led to a lot of tension. (Documents 4, 5, 6).
When women have spent most of the time on science, men would be unhappy with their actions. Men would criticized them by saying how they have concentrated more on stars in the night instead of household work or how women have a weak mind and they should not study science because they would not understand it easily. They had felt that women, when first born were giving specific rules in society, which were to be inferior to men, stay home, clean the house and to take care of the children. When women had started to acquire professions such as Duchess of Newcastle, who became an author, and had wrote a scientific book called A World Made by Atomes or the construction of calendars based on astronomical observations created animosity towards men. Society would then become revolved around women because they would stand out from men. They would produce books that would teach lessons to educated people. Women would look up to educated women as role models stating how they have the ability to become equal to men. Male figures would dislike this because women would take away the pride and royalty of men by using reason, science and arts to advance their minds further than them. Even though men were the dominate species in society, they also had points of views that showed bias towards women's participation in science. (Documents 1, 3, 8, 12).
Bias, which means a given statement that has two different point of views had gave women the uncertainty of whether people were for or against their actions for studying science. Based on some men and women, they had felt that women should stay silent in society and limit their learning of arts, science and literature, but when those women become a major part of the society by publishing books and teaching other women subjects, they feel that women can support men's hard work and increase education in society.
