The Rights of Women By Robert Burns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 How our forefathers and the likes of Adam Smith and Robert Burns protected women in link below. Douglas Ross is absolutely correct in this link below calling out @ScotParl presiding officer. Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿was built on the respect for women.That respect and protectionism has been eroded and left us women in ‘No Mans Land’. It is a national disgrace that this government continues to spend our monies on court cases to defend the un defendable. If only @scotgov had same respect as this Robert Burns poem. The silence and respect for Scotlands women is deafening by the Scottish Government. Any man or woman in the Scottish or the UK Parliament who does-not protect our women does not deserve to hold public office. 'The Rights of Women' also refers to the role of the female in eighteenth-century society. The poet states that 'The Rights of Woman merit some attention'. The rights of which Burns speaks are 'protection', 'decorum' (or good manners) and 'admiration'. Society must protect and respect the delicacy of the female sex, and so Burns can be seen to assume a stance typical of his time. The eighteenth-century notion of sentiment. The eighteenth-century notion of sentiment propagated by enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith did place women in what was considered to be a crucial role within society.