They thrived in an area where they could work and women helped with that by hosting salons where philosophers could get together and share their ideas.
Women should be treated equally to males and given access to higher education, according to the philosophies' views on the subject.
Many philosophers supported the equality of women, but some still thought that women should be under subordination to males.
The Philosophes were a group of French Enlightenment thinkers who employed scientific methods to analyze and better society.
They held that using reason might result in changes to society, law, and government.
