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1920: The Methodist Episcopal Church granted women the right to become licensed as local preachers. [13] 1920s: Some Baptist denominations started ordaining women. [12] 1921: Helen Barrett Montgomery became the first woman to be elected president of the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC), and of any religious denomination in the United States ...
The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) began ordaining women in 1909. [3] Women were first elected to the procurer of the Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of Chicago – the Bahai Temple Unity. Of the nine members elected by secret ballot three were women with Corinne True (later appointed as a Hand of the Cause) serving as an officer. [24]
Women did tasks as important as those of men, managed their households, and were equals in daily life, but all public decisions were made by men. Men had specific obligations they were required to perform for their wives including the provision of clothing, food, and sexual relations. [ 46 ]
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...
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.
Spain: Law 31/1972 changed the law in respect to articles 320 and 321. It reduced the age of majority to 21 in all cases for women, and allowed women to act as an adult in civil life. This meant both men and women reached majority when they were 21. [315] [179] [171] Spain: The law changed in 1972 to give women more freedom from their fathers.
Some countries in Africa: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, guarantees comprehensive rights to women including the right to take part in the political process, to social and political equality with men, to control of their reproductive health ...
Sweden: Women are granted the permit to manufacture and sell candles. [3] France: Divorce is abolished for women in 1804. France: Equal inheritance rights for women were abolished in 1804. [4] 1810. France: Until 1994, France kept in the French Penal Code the article from 1810 that exonerated a rapist in the event of a marriage to their victim. [5]