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Finally, after much lobbying and petitioning by KERA and other women's clubs, the legislature passed a law in 1912 that gave "qualified" women the right to vote and run for office in the new county school system. This law was tested in the courts and stood, allowing for state protection of the right for black and white women citizens to vote.
[1] [2] Signed by Governor Matt Bevin on April 26, 2018, [3] [4] it was the first such law for permanent child custody orders passed in the United States. [5] [6] A temporary order aided the law's passage of the shared parenting bill, House Bill 492, passed a year before. The law became a motivator for similar bills to be passed in other states ...
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.
The Louisville group talked about abortion and health care, gun reform and immigration, education and economics and attitudes toward women. Kentucky women get personal about 2024 election issues ...
Kentucky adopted this law in 1798; Mississippi passed a similar law in 1822, using the phrase about females and their descendants, as did Florida in 1828. [12] Louisiana, whose legal system was based on civil law (following its French colonial past), in 1825 added this language to its code: "Children born of a mother then in a state of slavery ...
OpEd: Kentucky’s new abortion laws are just as draconian and create personal and negative consequences no one has begun to imagine. State abortion laws will destroy women’s autonomy and ...
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The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents).