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The state also passes a statute that proclaimed women who had abortions could be given a prison sentence of three months to a year. It was one of the few states at the time to have laws punishing women for getting abortions. [8] Florida: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1846
It's a huge jump toward gender equality in California's Capitol, where only men have served as governor and women made up one-quarter of state lawmakers just eight years ago.
United States, California: In 2002, the California State Legislature passed a law that said: "The state may not deny or interfere with a woman's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."
If this time ever comes then it will be time for women to claim the ballot. [192] Elna Green points out that, "Suffrage rhetoric claimed that enfranchised women would outlaw child labor, pass minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws for women workers, and establish health and safety standards for factory workers." The threat of these reforms united ...
Black women in California had been working for suffrage as far back as the 1890s. [21] The Fannie Jackson Coppin Club was an important club for African American women in Alameda County who were active in the suffrage movement. Lydia Flood Jackson and Hettie B. Tilghman were among the leaders of this organization. [22]
Women in the Northern states were the principal advocates of enhancing women's property rights. Connecticut's law of 1809 allowing a married woman to write a will was a forerunner, though its impact on property and contracts was so slight that it is not counted as the first statute to address married women's property rights. [12]
The women marched nearly a mile along Broadway in Oakland to the site of the California State Republican Convention to demand California suffrage be added to the Republican platform (state Democratic and Labor parties had already done so). California Republicans would not add suffrage until their next state convention in 1909. [19]
Crowfoot said the move serves “to right a historic wrong” against California’s Native American communities, which make up 1.7% of the state’s population, according to 2022 United States ...