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Explain why the issue of education was important to both mary astell and mary wollstonecraft

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Wollstonecraft believed women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful. Astell wrote a book that addressed the lack of educational opportunities for women. Both believed that educating women would lessen gender inequality.

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