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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.
At a women's rights convention in 1869, the Delaware Suffrage Association was formed. [308] Mary Ann Sorden Stuart, a women's rights advocate testified in both the United States Congress and the Delaware General Assembly in the 1870s and 1880s.
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.
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 ).
In the highly-charged political climate that is 2017 America, women's rights are front and center every day. With new legislature being proposed, rejected or enacted on both the national and local ...
A group participates in a rally in front of the State House in Columbia, Tuesday morning, July 19, 2022. The rally was organized by the Women's Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN) in response to ...
In the early years of Donald Trump's adminstration, the ERA reemerged as an issue, with three states choosing to go ahead and ratify it, fearing what a Trump term might do for the rights of women ...
In January 2023, the Minnesota state legislature passed a bill enshrining women's reproductive rights, including the right to legal abortion and contraception, into Minnesota statutes. The Minnesota Supreme Court had previously ruled in 1995 that the Minnesota state constitution conferred a right to abortion. [ 112 ]