De Tocqueville

In Europe and America, the different view of women have to do with their character more than anything else. Though Americans respect the character and freedom of a woman, and rarely "lavish her" as the way that Europeans do, they also have given specific tasks to a woman as opposed to a man. The argument for this is that women are the best at carrying out their tasks, and men are the best at theirs, and therefore they have divided them into very specific groups. Apparently society can be driven forward more easily if people stay in the tasks assigned to their own gender. Apparently the European society is allowing more women to do things that men would do, but they still give them an image as being seductresses and inferior mentally. However, De Tocqueville argues that women are equals intellectually and their freedom should be respected, but by having each gender stay in his or her specific "task" of life, they will in fact be putting women as equals to men because they are equals though assigned to different tasks. Men don't do the woman's task, women don't do the man's one.