How does Pygmalions attitude towards women change over the course of the text? Cite evidence from the text in your response.

Henry
Higgins is thefigure in this play. Just as Pygmalion sculpts a female figure so beautiful that
it turns into a real woman, so Higgins turns flower seller Eliza Doolittle into a
lady.

There is no evidence that Higgins' attitude toward women in general
changes over the course of the play. His attitude toward Eliza does change:
he comes to respect her, as he says, half sardonically, as a "tower of strength." He
is willing to accept her as a part of his life on Wimpole Street, which for him is a big change.
If she doesn't want that, he offers her things he would not have when the play began:

I'll adopt you as my daughter and settle money on you if you like.
Or would you rather marry Pickering?

It is notable that
he doesn't just throw her back on the streets now that his experiment with her is over. He
understands that since she has become a lady, she can't simply return to her old life.

However, it is impossible for Higgins to change how he treats Eliza. He is rude to her
as the play begins and rude to her as it ends, feeling it is his right to insult her and order
her around. Eliza tries to explain that it was not his teaching her to speak with an upper-class
accent that caused her to be able to become a lady, but Colonel Pickering treating her with
respect and dignity. She notes to Pickering that he called her Miss Doolittle, opened doors for
her, and was sensitive to her feelings. She says to Pickering that:

You see it was so very difficult for me with the example of Professor Higgins always
before me. I was brought up to be just like him, unable to control myself, and using bad
language on the slightest provocation. And I should never have known that ladies and gentlemen
didn't behave like that if you hadn't been there.

Eliza
also states:

the difference between a lady and a flower
girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor
Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will.

However, she is wrong. Not only does Higgins at the end of the play
pay her the compliment (if half sarcastically) of calling her a tower of strength and offering
to adopt her, he accepts her as equal at the end:

You and
I and Pickering will be three old bachelors together instead of only two men and a silly
girl.

But this isn't quite enough for Eliza, who wants
the insults and bullying to stop.