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The state also passes a statute that proclaimed women who had abortions could be given a prison sentence of three months to a year. It was one of the few states at the time to have laws punishing women for getting abortions. [8] Florida: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1846
Women in rural areas, for example, had limited access to medical care and professional treatment. Less than half the women in a rural area in Wisconsin were attended to by doctors, and even then, the doctors sometimes arrived post-birth to cut the cord. The study also found a correlation between poverty and mortality rate.
Poland: Article 96 of the Polish constitution of 1921 provided that all citizens were equal under law, however, it did not apply to married women. [75] On 1 July 1921 the Act on the Change of Certain Provisions of the Civil Law Pertaining to Women's Rights was enacted by the Sejm, to address the most obvious inequalities for women who were ...
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).
The 1827 law was the first in the nation to impose criminal penalties in connection with abortion before quickening. [17] United States, New York: The first statute to criminalize abortion in New York State was enacted in 1827. This law made post-quickening abortions a felony and made pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor. [17] [18] 1829
United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that spring and a general election on August 1, beating Wyoming women to the polls. [28] The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887.
Women achieved many groundbreaking firsts in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for her novel "The Age of Innocence". [228] In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman elected as a governor in the United States, for the state of Wyoming. [229]
In Welsh law, women's testimony could be accepted towards other women but not against men, but Welsh laws, specifically The Laws of Hywel Dda, also reflected accountability for men to pay child maintenance for children born out of wedlock, which empowered women to claim rightful payment. [81]