The issue of gender equality

Question 1

Boys were treated the same as females until men

Answer 1

MALVOLIO
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young 
enough fora boy—as a squash is before ‘tis a 
peascod, or acodling when ‘tis almost an apple. ‘Tis 
with himin standing water, between boy and man. (1.5.155-158)

Question 2

Women themselves believed they were inferior as if fact

Answer 2

VIOLA
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,
For such as we are made of, such we be. (2.2.31-32)

Question 3

The captain shows the seriousness of the divide between gender

Answer 3

CAPTAIN - Be you his eunuch, and your mute I’ll be.

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see