An Equal Opportunity Equality, a very simplistic word but applied to our society is incredibly complex. We as people strive and have strived for ages to become equal to one another, but however, that goal is somewhat far from being attained. Women are prime examples of this sort of inequality. There are more opportunities for women to advance now than there were in the past because of certain individuals who believed that although our framework may be different, our minds and ability are just as sharp as any male. Two such people who expressed this belief in the earlier courses of our history are Daniel Defoe and Mary Wollstonecraft. They both published si