She advocated the same education for boy and for girls, men and women. Here is an excerpt in which she talks about her ideal education for a child. I wonder what she would think of our modern school system. This biography is supposed to emphasize her feminist ideas. Once she looses her virginity, she is marked for life as a debased woman.
Many contemporary feminists equate sexual freedom with equality.
For Macaulay, chastity freely chosen by a woman was a means of becoming empowered. Only a few of our contemporary feminists have tackled this topic the topic of chastity and celibacy as a possible positive concept for women. Only a few have noted the personal empowerment that women gain by choosing to redirect the emotional energy used to prop up a sex partner's self-image toward oneself. Macaulay talks about the advantages of chastity for a woman. That, for these reasons, coquetry in women is as dangerous as it is dishonorable.