Catharine Beecher was a well-educated woman from a prominent family who was an educational reformer. What are some possible reasons she opposed women becoming "ambitious" or seeking power?

In the 19th century, Catharine Esther Beecher was an women educator from America who was born in 1800 in a crusader family. She was a well known educational reformer and a well educated women. She raised the concern for women education and made reforms in education. Catharine Beecher promoted teaching as a profession for the women.

Catharine Beecher was a firm believer that women is the better sex to become teachers. As the country advances, Catharine beliefs that there is more need for women to become teachers as men are leaving teaching jobs and taking up other professions. Catherine thus strongly opposes the thought of women becoming powerful and becoming ambitious.

Catherine believed that a women's life of sphere is that of a private and family life who who has a subordinate position to men. Thus women becoming more ambitious and taking part in the politics will harm the life of women and is wrong for the society.