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William Penn's Views on Women: Subjects of Friendship

William Penn's views on women are of interest to the historian not because of their originality, but because Penn transferred the English Quaker view of women to the colony of Pennsylvania. His attitudes were comparable to those of his English contemporaries, that is, that women's role was one of domestic helpmeet—chaste, modest and devout. Penn's Quakerism, however, and his own experience caused him to favor a measure of equality within a marriage partnership and autonomy within Quaker women's meetings. Penn's views consisted of a duality of religious egaUtarianism and traditional patriarchy, or, as Edward CO. Beatty (the only biographer of Penn to discuss Penn's view of women) has characterized it: a mixture of "Biblical patriarchy and Quaker democracy."1 What made Penn's view of women different from that of an English Anglican or New England Puritan was the belief he shared with other Quakers that women possessed the "Inner Light," that is, the inward light of Christ's power and saving grace, as did all humanity. As the Quaker founder, George Fox put it: