Renaissance Women During the Renaissance, women were not considered 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 at that time was to marry, have children and take care of the household. Despite these facts, some women have managed to escape these statistics. I believe these women of this era should be honored simply because they made a name for themselves, not just by their looks. This is significant given that the fight for equality was long and perilous and some are unaware that it began at this time. As far as we know, women were not then known to be intelligent - they took care of the work of their households and nothing else. I will first explain how women were perceived by men and why they were fully valued. After laying out the facts about this, I will explain the path to equality and how they got there. This phenomenon was partly due to women distributing their own literary works. I will give examples of women's work that gave insight into how difficult it really was for them and how they should not have been looked down upon. In the text "The Humanist Tradition", we are given the idea that women were only good at household chores and were only known for their beauty. Directly quoted, "Renaissance women's profession remained limited to service tasks, such as midwifery and innkeeping." Once a woman married during the Renaissance, her opportunities became limited because the man was considered superior. Women were so looked down upon that they were thought to be too slow and delicate to take on the responsibility of ra...... middle of paper...... kept silent simply because of the superiority of men - unlike to Lucrieta and Christine. The fact that women are kept at home to do housework confirms that they have done little to change this stereotype. Since the Renaissance, a lot has changed, fortunately. I can't imagine how painful it must have been for women to constantly live under the shadow of someone who didn't create them: men. Work cited De Pisan, Christine. “The Book of the City of Ladies.” Hanover College. No. Internet. October 29, 2012. .Deslauriers, Marguerite, "Lucrezia Marinella", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (winter 2012 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = .Fiero, Gloria. The humanist tradition. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 34-39. Print.