What did Abigail Adams urge John Adams to do?

On March 31st, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the continental congress to remember the interests of the nation's women while fighting for independence from the British. An excerpt from the letter reads, "...I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands".