Anthony, working as a team, started winning victories such as the 1848 Married Women's Property Act of New York and its amendment of 1860 which allowed wives to finally hold property, keep their own earnings and inheritance, make contracts, sue in court, and share child custody of their own children (www.teacherlink.ed.usu.edu). ... She also helped women to gain property rights, birth control, and the right for women to obtain divorces (ibid). Even though the women's voting rights amendment wasn't passed until after her death, it was her involvement that attracted people's ...

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In 1853 Susan began to do campaign for women's property rights in New York State, In 1860, largely as the result of her efforts, the New York State Married Women's Property Bill became law, allowing married women to own property, keep their own wages, and have custody of their children. ... From that moment onwards British feminists went forward without pause till the outbreak of war in 1914 and when that time came (although the actual Bill was not passed until 1918) the first installment of victory was virtually won. ...

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In addition to suffrage, she promoted co-education, equal wages, property rights for wives, child custody rights for mothers, and reform of divorce laws. ... Although, as Elizabeth soon found out, Judge Cady's hands were often tied, considering existing laws reduced a woman's control over her own wages, property and even her children. ... However, her hard work paid off when legislation was passed giving women right's over their own property, wages, and children. ... She believed that this showed women as a piece of property. ... Elizabeth couldn't believe that not only ...

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The rightr was issued exclusively to women property-owners over the age of 30! ... Since 1963, when the equal pay law for men and women was passed in the US we have climbed the ladder in the workplace. ...

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Women were not allowed the right to vote, many don't go to college, face much discrimination, and there were barely any property rights for women. ... The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin....

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Women during the Elizabethan era were not allowed to have any possessions and were usually passed on to their husband or any other male in their lives. "When it came to property, a woman gave up all of her rights to own land and such things to her husband. ... "Come, go with me: I will go seek the king./ This is the very ecstasy of love,/ Whose violent property fordoes itself/ And leads the will to desperate undertakings/ As oft as any passion under heaven/ That does afflict our natures," (2.1.101-106) as mentioned by Polonius. ...

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Before the early 1900s women were not allowed to own property, receive inheritance, get paid a decent wage, or vote. ... The National Women's Party extensively protested against President Wilson and other democrats who refused to pass the Susan B. ... Anthony Amendment was passed by the congress. ... The thirty-sixth state ratified in August of 1920, only one year after the congress had passed it. ... They refused to pass it, so Miss Paul continued with her campaigning and efforts. ...

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In 1870, an Act was passed so that married women could own personal property. August, 1902, NSW women were finally granted the right to vote. The federal and state move was welcomed by women's groups. In 1902, Ada Emily Evans was the first woman in Australia to qualify in law when she graduated ...

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Their efforts worked Congress enacted the Lever Act of 1917 to outlaw the use of grain in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, and many state and local governments passed laws prohibiting the distribution and consumption of alcohol. ... They worked to raise money for the movement, yet their fathers and husbands controlled their money and property. ... Congress passed a law that ended the Atlantic slave trade. ...

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Laws which affect women are now passed without consulting them. 4. ... The injustices included the denial of the right to vote, the fact that a married woman gave control of her property to her husband, the exclusion of women from the professions, and the nearly absolute legal control of women by men. ... Resolution nine barely passed. ...

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union Historically many women devoted their whole life to their families and societies. The only name they could use in public was the family name or the husband name. They even had no right to vote since the vote unit was the family at that time. In other w...

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Women had been granted the right to speak in public, testify in court, and preach from the pulpit, access to equal education, control of personal wages and property, legal custody of children and entrance into some professions and suffrage. ... On May 21, 1919 the House of Representatives passed the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment; originally the 16th Amendment, but now the 19th. ...

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When a woman married, her wealth passed to her husband. ... For example, upon her return from the beach, Leonce berates her for staying out in the sun to long and looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 266). ...

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