\'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.\' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education.. \'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.\' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education.