When historians examine the period between the 15th and 17th centuries in Europe, they analyze who was marginalized and how they were marginalized. Individuals who suffered at the hands of various forces that seemed beyond their control came from a large group representing at least half of humanity known as women. The female gender had been largely marginalized and continued in the period between the 15th and 17th centuries, as described by historians: “It consists in implicitly or explicitly comparing the situation of women with that of men by focusing on the law, on prescriptive literature, on iconographic representation , structure, and political participation.”1 Economic developments and emerging scientific techniques would eventually begin to improve the status of women during the 18th century. It is important to note that women could hardly respond to marginalization before the 18th century, when male entities at that time were too powerful to defeat, and that many women accepted these facts. Until the arrival of the 18th century, cultural traditions, law and religion would conspire to keep women in the inferior position they had occupied for many millennia. John Nox was a Scottish clergyman during the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in this recorded statement about women of the time he said: "And first, when I say that the empire of a woman is a thing repugnant to nature, I did not mean merely that God, by order of his creation, has ruined woman of authority and dominion, but also that man has seen, demonstrated and pronounced the right causes for which it should be, sees very clearly in this regard” .3 Man is the dominant figure in these eras and...center of the card...personal property.7 The encouragement of these practices came from religions that believed that women were put on earth to serve men to because of their higher status in nature. Women were clearly marginalized, although their voices from the past continue to live on today because their stories are told through historical documents and historians should continue to seek verification of the past so that their memories are not forgotten. Works Cited-Bossuet, Bishop Politics Taken from the Veryof Scripture (1679) 3.-Chojnacki, Stanley Motherhood, Gender, and Patrician Culture in Renaissance Venice Cornell University Press, 1991. 182.-Davis, Natalie City Women and Religious Change Stanford University Press, 1975. 66.-Engels, Frederick The Family (1884) 22.-Laven, Mary Cast Out and Locked In 95.-Scott, Joan Gender and the Politics of History Columbia University Press, 1983. 23.