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Birth control advocacy took on a global aspect as organizations around the world began to collaborate. In the United States, Margaret Sanger was known for her advocacy for birth control and reproductive rights for women and was a prominent figure in the Second Women's Rights Movement which began during the 1960s to the early 1980s.
Maine: Married women are granted the right to control their own earnings. [11] Oregon: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] Oregon: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1859
In Welsh law, women's testimony could be accepted towards other women but not against men, but Welsh laws, specifically The Laws of Hywel Dda, also reflected accountability for men to pay child maintenance for children born out of wedlock, which empowered women to claim rightful payment. [81]
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage.
In 1855, free love advocate Mary Gove Nichols (1810–1884) described marriage as the "annihilation of woman", explaining that women were considered to be men's property in law and public sentiment, making it possible for tyrannical men to deprive their wives of all freedom. [9] [10] For example, the law often allowed a husband to beat his wife ...
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Some fathers' rights advocates have sought the right to prevent women from having an abortion without the father's consent, based on the idea that it is discriminatory for men not to have the ability to participate in a decision to terminate a pregnancy. [22] [115] This option is not supported by any laws in the United States. [116]