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  2. Legal rights of women in history - Wikipedia

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    Women could serve as witnesses in court but her testimony worth half that of a man. As mentioned in the Quran "Call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and two women of such as you approve as witnesses, so that if one of the two (women) forgets, the other (woman) may remind her" [77]

  3. 1 Timothy 2:12 - Wikipedia

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    It was cited frequently by those who wished to condemn women or believed them inferior to men. [9] Ambrosiaster and 1 Timothy 2:12 were cited by John Knox in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, a 1558 book attacking the idea of rule by queens and women in leadership on biblical grounds. [10]

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

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    Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...

  5. Women rule the roost, but the men don't mind - AOL

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    Women may not have parity in the workplace, but they rule the roost at home. According to a study from the Pew Research Center, women make the decisions around the house, and the men don't seem to ...

  6. Matriarchy - Wikipedia

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    Scholarly interpretations of the fictional work include that women win a war against men, [178] [179] "reconcil[e]" [180] with "those men of good will who come to join them", [180] exercise feminist autonomy [180] through polyandry, [181] decide how to govern, [180] and rule the men. [182] The women confronting men [183] are, according to ...

  7. 10 Industries Where Women Rule - AOL

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    By Selena Dehne, JIST Publishing Move over men ... women are becoming the major force in the job market. According to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for ...

  8. Combat Exclusion Policy - Wikipedia

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    Women remained ineligible to serve in 238,000 positions, about a fifth of the armed forces. [7] Women serving in the U.S. military in the past have often seen combat despite the Combat Exclusion Policy. Due to a shortage of troops, women were temporarily attached to direct combat units slipping in through a bureaucratic loophole. [8]

  9. Patriarchy - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle portrayed women as morally, intellectually, and physically inferior to men; saw women as the property of men; claimed that women's role in society was to reproduce and to serve men in the household; and saw male domination of women as natural and virtuous. [43] [44] [45]