│By Olivia McDermott, Gale Ambassador at the University of Liverpool│
As International Women’s Day begins to approach, it seems fitting that we should reflect upon the many ways in which the female experience has changed over time.
Historically, from a patriarchal lens, the female experience has been aligned with ideas of subjugation, inferiority, and passivity. With the societal expectations of marriage and childrearing being deemed as intrinsic aspects of womanhood, up until the early Victorian period, women’s freedoms were extremely limited. However, this began to change by the end of the eighteenth century, as the passing of The Education Act (1870) allowed girls to receive the same education as boys.
