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Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Florida: Married women were given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1882. Lindon v.
Spain: Law 31/1972 changed the law in respect to articles 320 and 321. It reduced the age of majority to 21 in all cases for women, and allowed women to act as an adult in civil life. This meant both men and women reached majority when they were 21. [315] [179] [171] Spain: The law changed in 1972 to give women more freedom from their fathers.
England was one of the first places in the world to grant voting rights to women citizens universally and regardless of marital status, which it did by passage of the 1918 Representation of the People Act that gave voting rights to women aged 30 years and over who met a property qualification (equal voting rights with men was achieved a decade ...
Washington Territory, United States: Women in the Washington Territory were granted jury service rights, but those rights were rescinded in 1887 due to a change in the territory's Supreme Court. [128] [129] 1884. France: Equal divorce legalized for women and men. [130] Switzerland: Legal majority for unmarried women (including widows). [48]
Some countries in Africa: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, guarantees comprehensive rights to women including the right to take part in the political process, to social and political equality with men, to control of their reproductive health ...
Even so, many women's anti-slavery societies were active before the Civil War, the first one having been created in 1832 by free black women from Salem, Massachusetts [88] Fiery abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster was an ultra-abolitionist, who also led Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony into the anti-slavery movement.
Switzerland was one of the last European countries to establish gender equality in marriage: married women's rights were severely restricted until 1988, when legal reforms providing gender equality in marriage, abolishing the legal authority of the husband, came into force (these reforms had been approved in 1985 by voters in a referendum, who ...
One of the aspects highlighted in the Twelve Tables is a woman's legal status and standing in society. Women were considered to be a form of guardianship similar to that of minors, [14] and sections on ownership and possession give off the impression that women were considered to be akin to a piece of real estate or property due to the use of ...