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In a 2007 interview, al-Huwaider described the goals: "representation for women in shari'a courts; setting a [minimum] age for girls' marriages; allowing women to take care of their own affairs in government agencies and allowing them to enter government buildings; protecting women from domestic violence, such as physical or verbal violence, or ...
The second part of the Welsh Law Codes begins with "the laws of women", such as the rules governing marriage and the division of property if a married couple should separate. The position of women under Welsh law differed significantly from that of their Norman-English contemporaries. A marriage could be established in two basic ways.
A pregnant girl in France under the age of 18 may ask for an abortion without consulting her parents first if she is accompanied to the clinic by an adult of her choice, who must not tell her parents or any third party about the abortion. [7] [8] [9] China: China amended its marriage law so that abuse was considered grounds for divorce. [10]
New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 is amended so that women lost equal guardianship of their children, and only had veto power over decisions on apprenticeship and the appointment of testamentary guardians. Parts of the act that made husbands and wives equal in realty in cases of intestacy were overturned. [18] 1864
Austria-Hungary : Universities open to women. [9] Egypt: A public school system for girls is organized. [97] France: Women eligible as administrators of public charity boards. [123] Upper Canada: Women allowed to work as barristers. [citation needed] Russia: A Women's medical university are opened, which opens the profession of physician for ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.. The decision stems from a multiyear legal battle ...
An addendum to the 1939 law was passed on 24 March 1970, [278] allowing on-demand abortions only for women under the age of 18 who were deemed "ill-equipped for motherhood", and women over the age of 38. [173] [130] [279] United States, Hawaii, New York, Alaska and Washington: Hawaii, New York, Alaska and Washington repealed their abortion laws.
The first chassis on the assembly aisle at the Ford factory in Long Beach, California. In 1926, Ford Motor Company become one of the first employers to institute an eight-hour-a-day, five-day ...