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  2. Sheppard–Towner Act - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    The Virginia colony passes a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status. [2] 1664. Maryland declares that any Englishwoman who married a slave had to live as a slave of her husband's master. [3] 1718

  4. Lila Meade Valentine - Wikipedia

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    Lila Meade Valentine (born Lila Hardaway Meade; February 4, 1865 – July 14, 1921) was a Virginia education reformer, health-care advocate, and one of the main leaders of her state's participation in the woman's suffrage movement in the United States.

  5. Racial Integrity Act of 1924 - Wikipedia

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    Plecker described Virginia's racial purity laws and requested to be put on Gross' mailing list. Plecker commented upon the Third Reich's sterilization of 600 children in the Rhineland (the so-called Rhineland Bastards , who were born of German women by black French colonial fathers): "I hope this work is complete and not one has been missed.

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    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 ...

  7. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Women's suffrage in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Maggie L. Walker, an African American businesswoman and the first woman in the United States to establish and serve as president of a bank, [12] [13] chaired a committee of female activists that held mass meetings to encourage black women to vote. [14] Virginia women were only given one month to register to vote before the November 1920 ...

  9. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913