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

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    Women in the Northern states were the principal advocates of enhancing women's property rights. Connecticut's law of 1809 allowing a married woman to write a will was a forerunner, though its impact on property and contracts was so slight that it is not counted as the first statute to address married women's property rights. [12]

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

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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

  4. Married Women's Property Act 1870 - Wikipedia

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    The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.

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

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    United States, Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, went into effect on January 1, 1968. [ 267 ] United States, California: The Southern Pacific Railroad rejected Leah Rosenfeld 's claims for promotion, citing the California state law that barred women from performing the ...

  6. The history of women in real estate - AOL

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    Key takeaways. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to finance real estate purchases without a husband or male co-signer until the 1970s. More than 60 percent of all Realtors and property managers ...

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

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    United States, California: Married Women's Property Act grant married women separate economy. [37] United States, Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grant married women separate economy. [37] United States, Oregon: Unmarried women are allowed to own land. [9]

  8. 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).

  9. Women's property rights - Wikipedia

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    Because women's property rights are often assumed through the security of the oftentimes, male, household head, some inheritance laws allocate less property to female heirs than male heirs. [15] Ongoing adherence to male-dominated traditions of property ownership has generally meant that women cannot take advantage of the wide range of benefits ...