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Georgia: Married women were given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] New York City: Susannah Lattin's death led to an investigation that resulted in the regulation of maternity clinics and adoptions in New York City. [22] [23] 1869. Minnesota: Married women were granted separate economy. [4]
A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2] Georgia removes property requirement for voting. [3]
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Women were also granted the right to stand for election. [4] [38] [40] United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Local Government Act 1894 confirms single women's right to vote in local elections and extends this franchise to some married women. [24] [26] By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England ...
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today.
United States, Maine: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name. [13] United States, Maryland: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name. [13] 1842. Norway: Unmarried women are given the right to engage in small scale commerce (though only within the country). [23]
Saudi Arabia: In 2008, women were allowed to enter hotels and furnished apartments without their mahram if they had their national identification cards. [172] Nicaragua: Article 196, repealed in 2008, stated that if a rape victim marries the offender or grants a pardon, the procedure was suspended and the sentence imposed was cancelled. [85] [173]