Women of History: Better of in Athens or Sparta

If one were to debate and deliberate on the issue that “it was better for a woman to live in Sparta than in Athens,” my opinion would probably coincide with the resolution. There are many factors to take into account when one analyses of the key points in each society. The Athenian by nature were more liberal and locked onto the idea of political freedom whereas Spartans created a society that produces soldiers rather than poets or philosophers. But the cons of Athenian society for women far outweigh, by far, the cons of Spartan society.
The status of women under the Athenian democracy, however crude it may have been, was similar to that of a slave except that some women could learn to read and write. Women of this society were denied the legal and political rights to participate in government, barred ...