Aristotle on Women

Aristotle believed that women are colder than men and thus a lower form of life.

According to Aristotle, man rightly takes charge over woman, because he commands superior intelligence. This will also profit the women who depend on him. He compares this to the relationship between human beings and tame animals.

On the other hand, Aristotle gave equal weight to women's happiness as he did to men's, and commented in his Rhetoric that a society cannot be happy unless women are happy too. In places like Sparta where the lot of women are bad, live in every sort of intemperance and luxury, and unhappy, there can only be half-happiness in society.

So I wikied Sparta women..

1. Spartan women enjoyed a status, power, and respect that was unknown in the rest of the classical world.
2. It is estimated that women were the sole owners of at least 35% of all land and property in Sparta.
3. unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore short dresses and went where they pleased