LSAT 159 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q3

RC Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: On the question of extending equal rights to women, which one …

DISCUSSION: The question asks how Gouges viewed the process of achieving women’s equality. She believed women’s oppression was maintained by political inequality and that women themselves needed to fight politically to change that. Her focus was on direct political struggle: women organizing and demanding rights from men who held social and political power.

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1. Somewhat right but too narrow. She did call for a struggle by women, but not just with men that refused “reasonable discussion”.
2. Too broad. She wasn’t talking about all disempowered groups, only women’s subordination.
3. CORRECT. Gouges argued that women had to engage in a political fight against men’s dominance in both public and private life (politics, marriage, property).
4. She didn’t mention forming alliances with men or relying on those in power. She actually thought women need to rely on themselves.
5. This describes Condorcet’s position, not Gouges’. She rejected the idea that equality would just naturally follow from the Revolution.