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  2. 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 ...

  3. Women's health movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The book also contained information intended to guide women on "how to maneuver the American health care system, with subsections called 'The Power and Role of Male Doctors,' 'The Profit Motive in Health Care,'" 'Women as Health Care Workers,' and 'Hospitals.' [42] They put their knowledge into an accessible format that served as a model for ...

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

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    United States: The U.S. Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (implemented in January 2007) prevented college health centers and many health care providers from participating in the drug pricing discount program, which formerly allowed contraceptives to be sold to students and women of low income in the United States at low cost.

  5. Women's health - Wikipedia

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    Women's health differs from that of men's health in many unique ways. Women's health is an example of population health, where health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". [1]

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  7. Feminism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dominant theory feminists view prostitution not as an industry, but, rather, as a state in which all women find themselves. Because they view all sexual intercourse as violent and victimizing to women, dominant theory feminists believe in the abolition of sex work. [71] Liberal feminists tend to be split between the argument of whether all sex ...

  8. United States abortion-rights movement - Wikipedia

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    A key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion, [6] [7] thereby decriminalizing and legalizing elective abortion in a number of states. On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

  9. Affordable Care Act - Wikipedia

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    The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) was established by section 3022 of the Affordable Care Act. It is the program by which an accountable care organization interacts with the federal government, and by which accountable care organizations can be created. [109] It is a fee-for-service model.