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United States, State of New York: Married Women's Property Act grant married women separate economy. [33] United States, Pennsylvania: Married women granted separate economy. [13] United States, Rhode Island: Married women granted separate economy. [13] 1849. India: Secondary education is made available by the foundation of the Bethune School. [34]
Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Florida: Married women were given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1882. Lindon v.
Islam made the education of women a sacred obligation [68] Women, far from being barred from study of Islam's holy book, were urged to learn to read it as were men. Women in Islam played an important role in the foundations of many Islamic educational institutions , such as Fatima al-Fihri 's founding of the University of Al Karaouine in 859.
Throughout medieval Europe, women were pressured to not attend courts and leave all legal business affairs to their husbands. In the legal system, women were regarded as the property of men so any threat or injury to them was the duty of their male guardians. [80] In Irish law, women were forbidden to act as witnesses in courts. [80]
Women were also granted the right to stand for election. [4] [38] [40] United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Local Government Act 1894 confirms single women's right to vote in local elections and extends this franchise to some married women. [24] [26] By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England ...
Uruguay was the first country in all of the Americas – and one of the first in the world – to grant women fully equal civil rights and universal suffrage (in its Constitution of 1917), though this suffrage was first exercised in 1927, in the 1927 Cerro Chato referendum, [119] and was put into national law through a decree in 1932. [120]
Speeches were given on the subjects of equal wages, expanded education and career opportunities, women's property rights, marriage reform, and temperance. Chief among the concerns discussed at the convention was the passage of laws that would give women the right to vote .
Catholic women were reluctant to vote in the early 1920s, but they registered in very large numbers for the 1928 election – the first in which Catholicism was a major issue. [281] A few women were elected to office, but none became especially prominent during this time period.