Catharine Beecher's Background

Something that stood out to me from my research right away was that Catharine Beecher is renowned abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe's sister. But it seems to me that Beecher's goal was to advocate women in the teaching field and to train them to master the household. Something that I quite didn't understand was that she was all for women in the workforce and improving education, but not for women's suffrage. It seems to be a contradiction that she is gung-ho for women's rights but not voting. She only thought that women were useful in the teaching field and at home, they had no influence in politics. She also wrote many books instructing women on domestic virtues. With the little research I was able to do, it definitely clarifies her writing and helps me understand her thoughts a little more.