<P> As opposed to de Gouges, Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life but does not explicitly state that men and women are equal . Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist . Rights of Woman was relatively well received in 1792 England . </P> <P> While there were no immediate effects in the United States upon publishing of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, it was used extensively in the modeling of the Declaration of Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others at the Seneca Falls Convention, held in the summer of 1848 . The Declaration of Sentiments, much like the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was written in the style of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, was written in the style of the Declaration of Independence of the United States . </P> <P> In her Declaration, de Gouges is forceful and sarcastic in tone and militant in spirit . Meant to be a document ensuring universal rights, The Declaration of the Rights of Man is exposed as anything but . For de Gouges, the most important expression of liberty was the right to free speech; she had been exercising that right her whole life . Access to the rostrum was another question, and one that she demanded be put at the forefront of the discussion about women's rights and suffrage . </P> <P> The Enlightenment's presumption of the natural rights of humans (or inalienable rights as in the United States Declaration of Independence) is in direct contradiction with the beliefs of natural sexual inequality (sometimes called the "founding principles of nature"). The rights the equality of the French Declaration states, but does not intend, implies, according to de Gouges, the need to be recognized as having a more far - reaching application; if rights are natural and if these rights are somehow inherent in bodies, then all bodies are deserving of such rights, regardless of any particularities like gender or race . </P>

Differences between declaration of rights of man and woman