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The married women's property acts gave women the right to bring lawsuits in their own name, but courts were reluctant to extend that right to the marriage relationship. [1] Between 1860 and 1913, courts narrowly interpreted marriage property acts so as to not allow spouses to sue each other for tortious acts. [1]
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
Kansas SB 180 [1] or the Kansas Women's Bill of Rights is a bill that bans any identification of a gender other than the gender recognized at birth in the US state of Kansas. [ 2 ] [ non-primary source needed ] Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed the bill in April 2023. [ 3 ]
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Sweden: The post of college teacher and lower official at public institutions are open to women. [57] United States, Kansas: Married Women's Property Act granted married women separate economy. [37] 1860. Norway: Women are allowed to teach in the rural elementary school system (in the city schools in 1869). [23]
Kansas Republicans on Monday rejected an attempt by Democrats to change state laws that require marriage to be between a man and a woman. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that states ...
Demonstrating the anger over property tax bills, the Wyandotte County ... property tax bill was expected to go up by $146.63. Last week’s public hearing held by the Wyandotte County-Kansas City ...
Because women's property rights are often assumed through the security of the oftentimes, male, household head, some inheritance laws allocate less property to female heirs than male heirs. [15] Ongoing adherence to male-dominated traditions of property ownership has generally meant that women cannot take advantage of the wide range of benefits ...