Essentially, by the end of the Revolution, nothing substantial had changed for women. There were slight positive reforms to private rights, such as those concerning property and divorce, in the 1793 Constitution, but those were repealed in the Napoleonic Code.

Though Feminist groups sprung up and advocated for such things as suffrage and higher wages for women, they ran up against a number of issues. They were disorganized and disunited. The various groups did not coordinate efforts, and generally functioned independently. They were not singularly focused on women's rights. Instead, they took up other causes ahead of their own, such as making food affordable for the poor. The Revolution frequently championed the traditional nuclear family, which had a stay-at-home mother as a centerpiece. This undermined the call for women to be outside the home working and participating in civic life.

Feminists were, from the outset, totally at odds with the Jacobins, who had the most influence at the time. Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen," had only one supporter among the prominent revolutionaries, a Girondist name Condorcet. Olympe was guillotined for advocating a constitutional monarchy, which she and others believed would further women's rights.

Jane Abray summarized revolutionary feminism as follows:

While [revolutionary feminism] lasted it was a very real phenomenon with a comprehensive program for social change, perhaps the most far-reaching such program of the Revolution. This very radicalism ensured that it would remain a minority movement....Despite its minority nature and its abject failure, revolutionary feminism is not without significance. It illustrates, as clearly as anything can, the changing seasons of the Revolutionary calendar and stands as striking proof of the essential social conservatism of this political upheaval.

Sources: Joan Roelofs, Women's Rights and the French Revolution: A Biography of Olympe de Gouges [Review] Jane Abray, "Feminism in the French Revolution"