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Women residing in the US automatically retained their American citizenship if they did not explicitly renounce; women residing abroad had the option to retain American citizenship by registration with a US consul. [55] The aim of these provisions was to prevent cases of multiple nationalities among women. [56] 1908. Muller v.
The Equality Act was a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally funded programs, credit, and jury service.
Tunisia: Adopted the Tunisian Constitution of 2014, which recognizes equality between men and women. [343] Among other things, quotas for women were introduced in Article 16 of the new constitution, which guaranteed equal representation of women in politics. [344]
Fifty-one years later in 1971, August 26 was first recognized as National Women's Equality Day. On Wednesday, we look back on all that women have gone through to make today possible and thank them.
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
United States, Illinois: In 1867, the State of Illinois passed a "Bill for the Protection of Personal Liberty" which guaranteed all people accused of insanity, including wives, had the right to a public hearing. [76] United States, Illinois: Illinois passed a bill in 1867 that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense. [77] [15]
– Women over 45 (lowered to 40 in 1974, raised back to 45 in 1985) [258] [259] – Women who had already delivered and reared four children (raised to five in 1985) [258] [259] – Women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term due to medical complications [258] [259] – Women whose fetuses were malformed [260]
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...