Progressivism could best be described as a political ideology that

Progressivism could best be described as a political ideology that seeks to promote the social and economic advancement of the majority of society--not just the rich and "interested" money groups.

Progressivism could best be described as a political ideology that works toward the making of social and political reforms that favors progress in science, technology, economic development and social and political organization with the purpose of improving society. It usually attends the needs and interests of the working and middle classes, which are the ones that are less taken care of by the system. Some examples of these reforms include the regulation of industries' practices, the protection of workers and consumer's rights, and the protection of people's right of press and protest.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.

it may be touching on the issue of over sexualizing all women