... less likely to apply for divorce not only because of the expense of divorce but also because they were financially dependent on the man. However this drastically changed over the period of a few years, between 1959 and 2005, the proportion of women in work rose by 23% from 47% to 70% although the majority of women are still paid less than ... marriage, cohabitation and divorce although there is no single reason as to why these changes happened there are a lot of factors which contributed to the changes which happened over a long period of time, some of the major factors would be law, se...

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