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California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
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 married. The provisions of the Act allowed women to control their own property (except their dowry), to act as witnesses to legal documents, to act as ...
Colombia: enacts Law 1257 of 2008 for establishing rules of awareness, prevention and punishment of all forms of violence and discrimination against women (Ley 1257 de 2008, por la cual se dictan normas de sensibilización, prevención y sanción de formas de violencia y discriminación contra las mujeres).
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
2016 – In June, the Women's Rights Foundation in Malta filed a judicial protest requesting access to emergency contraception. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] In early October, a joint parliamentary committee recommended that oral contraceptives should be sold with a prescription, but that the decision was up to the Malta Medicines Authority. [ 198 ]
By 2016, women's voter turnout was 63 percent compared to 53 percent for men, a difference of 10 million voters. [154] Also starting in 1980, men and women's vote choices began to diverge, with women being more likely to vote for Democratic candidates and to express support for the Democratic Party. [ 155 ]
Reproductive rights are understood as rights of both men and women, but are most frequently advanced as women's rights. [207] In the 1960s, reproductive rights activists promoted women's right to bodily autonomy, with these social movements leading to the gain of legal access to contraception and abortion during the next decades in many countries.
Caribbean immigrants. Then I re-visited the issue of Caribbean immigrant women and domestic workers’ rights, with the aim of expanding my opinion piece into a report. The narrative of the Caribbean nanny has been framed in a fictional or semi-autobiographical context. Some time ago, at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, I met