Many women in this period allowed their opinions to be known about the education and working conditions of young women. Mary Wollstonecraft, mentioned earlier, was a woman who wrote about the importance of women and education stating that she “[desired] to see [women] placed in a position where [they] would advance, rather than retard, the progress of those people. glorious principles that give substance to morality”. Wollstonecraft's appeal to men was made gracefully as she touched on the importance of female morality which seemed to have been of utmost importance to these men. If Wollstonecraft had been outspoken about women's education and said that men held women back and should allow women to be their own people, a feeling of unease would have swept through the male population and Wollstonecraft's article would have met great opposition. However, because he justifies the education of women with the need to understand "why she should be virtuous", men were able to see that the education of women in their lives could be beneficial to them as