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    The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education (educational equity). WEEA was enacted as Section 513 of P.L. 93-380.

  3. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    International: The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2122, which supported abortion rights for girls and women raped in wars, "noting the need for access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services, including regarding pregnancies resulting from rape, without discrimination."

  4. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    1777– All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk.

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    Timeline of women's legal rights ... New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passed. [58] ... to sell, give away, ...

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    United States, Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduced and passed the Married Women Property Rights Act, which became law in 1970, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures.

  7. Legal rights of women in history - Wikipedia

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    The legal rights of women refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the Declaration of Sentiments . [ 1 ] The dependent position of women in early law is proved by the evidence of most ancient systems.

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    Women's rights are the rights and entitlements ... on women's suffrage and in 1918 a bill was passed allowing women over the age ... away from home, and ...

  9. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [56] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [57]