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History of Women's Property Rights and Ownership


A history of women's land rights in Ireland - RTE

The Married Women's Property legislation in the late 1800s equalised the position of married women in terms of the acquisition and control of ...

Introduction | Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW

This chapter describes the gender gap in property rights, provides a brief history of the elevation of property rights in international law.

Women and Land Rights - Sida

Land is also a social asset that is crucial for cultural iden- tity, political power and participation in decision making. Women's ownership of property extends ...

Common Law Female Property Rights from Early Modern England ...

Mary Beard, in her book Woman as Force in. History: A Study in ... control and ownership of their husband, the property practices in Virginia granted many.

History of the courts - Wisconsin Court System - Articles on Wisconsin

In 1848, the law of most states gave husbands absolute control over their wives' property. The law viewed women as mere appendages of their ...

Women struggle to secure land rights | Africa Renewal

... women's land rights is an historical problem in Africa. Before colonial rule, land ownership and access took diverse forms but were largely vested in ...

The Modernization of Marital Status Law: Adjudicating Wives' Rights ...

gave a married woman property rights in her own labor as well as the ... MATTHAEI, AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA: WOMEN'S WORK, THE SEXUAL ...

Married Women's Property Laws and Female Commercial Activity

The Economic History Association. All rights reserved. ISSN 0022-0507. Zorina Khan is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA, ...

Aristocratic Ownership of Property in Early Modern England

looks at women's possibilities to own property in the English legal ... The historical problem of aristocratic women and property inheri- tance is a ...

Women and Property Rights - Christine Sleeter

In 1835 the state legislature passed a law specifying that women could keep property they had received before or during marriage.

Rights of women - Canada.ca

Starting in Ontario in 1884 and Manitoba in 1900, the Married Women's Property Act gave married women in these provinces the same legal rights ...

The Evolution of Women's Rights Through Family Law - Modern Legal

A married woman could not own any property, not even her own wages earned by her efforts outside of the home. She could not educate herself or make ...

Women's History Month: The right to own property was ... - Oregon.gov

Women's History Month: The right to own property was key to greater freedoms in Oregon ... March is Women's History Month. As we reflect on its ...

Women, Property and Law - The Scottish History Society

However, when looking closely at how married women were recorded within the legal record, we can see that married women's access to law and rights to property ...

Female Property Ownership and Status in Classical and Hellenistic ...

Historical Background. From c.550 BC to c.370 BC, Sparta was one of the most powerful poleis in the Greek world. Her external power was rooted in the ...

The Development of the Property Rights of Married Women

It has been accepted for inclusion in Historical Theses and Dissertations Collection by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital.

genealogy of women's property rights and political thought: a ...

Abstract: The notions of property, possession, and rights are topics of very predominant debate in the history of political thought. The scholars who have.

The evolution of women's property rights under the Hindu ...

The evolution of women's property rights under the Hindu Succession Act The real change occurred 50 years later, in 2005, despite several attempts in the ...

The Legal Status of Women, 1776 - 1830 - US History

Under these new circumstances, the old system of property law faltered. It failed to give adequate protection to women and, at the same time, ...

Homeownership for Women: How US Property Rights Evolved

In a nutshell, some ancient societies were progressive in terms of women's rights to the property. Even Ancient Roman women practiced the same ...