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Women's Rights & Issues

no_hypocrisy

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3. Women were forced to be dependent upon their fathers, then their husbands.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2024, 05:36 PM

Jul 2024

If they inherited money and/or property from their father and then married, the wives lost their rights to those interests. IOW, they didn't own it anymore; their husbands did.

Same for their wages. Went right to their husbands.

No wonder women had no franchise and no power. They were enslaved and penniless.

Coverture. Make sure it doesn't return in Project 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture#:~:text=In%201966%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Supreme,..%20in%20reality%20...

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