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The Act also did not do away with the discrepancy in men's and women's citizenship. [11] Under its terms, an American male citizen's foreign-born wife could take advantage of a streamlined one-year process to apply for her naturalization. No such process was offered to the husbands of American women who were foreigners. [25]
Though the act did not specifically preclude women from citizenship, courts absorbed the common law practice of coverture into the United States legal system. [11] Under this practice, the physical body of a married woman, and thus any rights to her person or property, was controlled by her husband.
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
In 2007, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 was discussed in the Senate, which would have given a path to eventual citizenship to a large majority of illegal entrants in the country, significantly increased legal immigration and increased enforcement. The bill failed to pass a cloture vote, essentially killing it.
In 1922, the Cable Act was passed, declaring that an American woman could not be denied the right to naturalize because she was married. [40] It established procedures for women, who had previously lost their citizenship because of marriage, to repatriate as naturalized (not birthright) citizens.
Several of the 26 countries are crafting initiatives for women's empowerment and gender equality — except when it comes to their citizenship.
About three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.
United States: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, is an American Act of Congress, passed on 22 October, [198] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on 28 October [199] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).