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This is a list of peerages created for women in the peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom. It does not include peerages created for men which were later inherited by women, or life peerages created since 1958 under the Life Peerages Act 1958. Background Prior to the regular creation of life peerages, the great majority of peerages were created for men ...
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Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, 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. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
The first four such women peers were: Barbara Wootton and Stella Isaacs, who were sworn in on 21 October 1958, and Katharine Elliot and Irene Curzon, who took office the next day. [3] [4] A life peer is created by the sovereign by letters patent under the Great Seal on the advice of the Prime Minister.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is created. ... 1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights ...
The Committee for Privileges agreed by a vote of twenty-two to four. Women remained excluded from the House of Lords until 1958, when life peeresses were admitted to the House. Hereditary peeresses were admitted by the Peerage Act 1963, though there have always been very few of them, since most hereditary peerages can be inherited only by males.
Since the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted a series of reforms (from the 1960s onward) to the honours system, few hereditary titles have been created (the last being created in 1990), while life peerages have proliferated, allowing for more openly LGBT persons to be appointed to the House of Lords.
Denmark: Equal inheritance rights. [29] Sweden: Women accepted as students at the Royal Academy of Music. [51] United States, Connecticut: Married women granted patent rights. [13] 1857. Denmark: Legal majority for unmarried women. [9] Denmark: Trades and crafts professions are opened to unmarried women. [52]