This chapter focuses on the place of work in Wollstonecraft’s moral and political philosophy, and in particular her feminist thought, as she argues that one way in which women are held back is by not being allowed to investigate the world, and move freely in the public space. She sometimes blames early marriage, as it simply removes a young woman from her parent’s home to that of her husband, who will himself have left home as a child to go to school, later possibly to travel, and still leaves most days to go to work. Women, Wollstonecraft argues, both in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters and in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman should pursue their development outside the home, either by leading professional lives or pursuing intellectual or artistic interests once their children are old enough to go to school. There can be no independence for women, Wollstonecraft argues, without work that goes beyond unpaid domestic work.