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Dress with freedom
When I was 12 or 13 years old and the great fashion of pants for women arrived, my mother came home one day with two. But my father told him that in no way could he put them on, that in that house he was the one wearing the pants -
Vote
Voting is a right that is taken for granted today in many parts of the world. however, 100 years ago women could not vote in many
countries.The female vote was allowed for the first time for all women in New Zealand in 1893. -
Participate in the armed forces
Although the two world wars represented an advance in this sense, women participated mostly in non-combat roles.
In NATO countries, the recruitment of women in regular armies began in the early 1970s in some "pioneers": the United States, Canada, Denmark and France. -
Abort with legal protection
At the end of the 19th century, abortion was illegalized in the United States; In Norway, whoever helped a woman to have an abortion could go to jail; and in Germany abortions that were not due to strict medical reasons were prohibited. -
Divorciarse
In some countries, such as Spain, the only requirement to be able to divorce today is that three months have passed since the date of marriage. But historically divorce has not been so easy. -
Manage your own assets in marriage
The possibility of inheriting, putting a lawsuit or participating in contracts was not always available to women. In the United States, for example, these rights were granted for the first time to married women in 1848, with the approval in New York of the Married Women's Property Act. -
Exercise the right to family planning
The Catholic Church routinely condemned any practice that interfered with conception during the Middle Ages. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII included the contraception between the activities of the witches, whose persecution authorized by the bull Summis desiderantes affectibus.
