Alexis de Tocqueville's Assessment of American Women in 1835

"Thus the Americans do not think that man and woman have either the duty or the right to perform the same offices, but they show an equal regard for both their respective parts; and though their lot is different, they consider both of them as beings of equal value. They do not give to the courage of woman the same form or the same direction as to that of man, but they never doubt her courage; and if they hold that man and his partner ought not always to exercise their intellect and understanding in the same manner, they at least believe the understanding of the one to be as sound as that of the other, and her intellect to be as clear...

As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. "

~Excerpts from Democracy in America

Thoughts for Consideration

In this past century of American history, has "singular prosperity and growing strength of the people" continued, biblically speaking?

Biblicallly speaking what does, ""singular prosperity and growing strength of the people" mean?

To what might we attribute this cultural shift and change?

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Several Scriptures to consider: Psalms 144:12-15, 33:12-19, Ephesians 5:22, Isaiah 3:10-12, Proverbs 31:10-31, Titus 3:3-5, Psalm 128, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Colossians 3:18, and

Genesis 3:13-19.