Tocqueville- Men and Women's Equality

Europeans, through their actions of catering to a woman’s every need and constantly acting slavish towards her shows that they view the woman as being more fragile than the man and not as strong as the man. In the United States, however, there is less of the coddling and the women are trusted with more responsibility, even if it is house duty which feminists later criticized this allotment of work. This shows that the people of the United States had more respect for the women of the United States and the work that they could perform, seeing as how men didn’t act as overseers and trusted the women to fulfill their duties properly. Tocuqeville insists that both are given their separate spheres in America, but both are expected to be competent and control their sphere appropriately, and due to the democratic principles of America, a woman will never overturn and try to take over what is the “man’s sphere.” This idea, however, proved flawed because women have proven themselves capable of surviving in the “man’s sphere,” which is the work force.