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  2. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) before ...

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    Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's ...

  3. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Tennessee: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1839. Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840.

  4. Legal rights of women in history - Wikipedia

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    In the Mosaic law, for monetary matters, women's and men's rights were almost exactly equal. A woman was entitled to her own private property, including land, livestock, slaves, and servants. A woman had the right to inherit whatever anyone bequeathed to her as a death gift, and inherited [2] equally with brothers and in the absence of sons ...

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

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    Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

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

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    United Kingdom: Offences Against the Person Act 1861. 1862. United States, New York: New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 was 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.

  7. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Organizations supporting women's rights became more active in the mid-19th century and, in 1848, the Seneca Falls convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for equality between the sexes and included a resolution urging women to secure the vote. Pro-suffrage organizations used a variety of tactics including legal arguments ...

  8. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California.

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

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    The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g. reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).