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  2. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1842, New Hampshire allowed married women to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their husband, and Kentucky did the same in 1843. In 1844 Maine extended married women property rights by granting them separate economy and then trade licenses. Massachusetts also granted married women separate economy in 1844. [10]

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

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    Oregon: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1859. Kansas: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] 1860. New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passes. [18] Married women are granted the right to control their own ...

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

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    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] New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9]

  5. The history of women in real estate - AOL

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    By 1900, married women were allowed to own property in their own name in virtually the entire country. In the U.S., 1974 is often cited as the year of women’s mortgage liberation.

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

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    National Organization for Women (NOW) obtained class status for women seeking the use of women's health clinics and began its court battle against Joseph Scheidler and PLAN et al. in 1986. In this particular case, the court's opinion was that extortion did not apply to the defendants' actions because they did not obtain any property from the ...

  7. 'Houses before spouses': This Austin woman went viral on ...

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    According to a LendingTree study released earlier this year, single women own 2.7 million more houses than their male counterparts in 47 of the 50 U.S. states — this, despite the fact that women ...

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

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    United States, Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduced and passed the Married Women Property Rights Act, which became law in 1970, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [282]

  9. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males (about 6% of the population). [1] However, New Jersey also gave the vote to unmarried and widowed women who met the property qualifications, regardless of color. Married women were not allowed to own property and hence could not vote. [2] [3]