The oppression of women in American history is an excellent example of non-wartime discrimination. Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women, women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes, most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid only a fraction of what men earned, women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law, women had no means to gain an education since no college or university would accept women students, women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men. Even after women were to be tr

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