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1840 Married Women Property Act
What? : protected womens property from their husband and their husbands creditors.
Significance: If women got married and owned alot of land,the husband couldnt just leave or divorce them, then just get the land.
why:women needed their land protected -
Birth Control
why: doctors only perscribed them for severe mentsral distress.
Significance: any woman now has acess to birth control. People thought of the pill as immoral and that it promoted prostitution and abortion. -
Equal Employment Rights
why: Women could be rejected from a job because of their gender
Significance: Created an equal right on working places, provided equal emplyment rights for women. -
Education Ammendment of 1972
why: equal education for women and men
Significane: women were now able to gain the same education level as men. A school couldnt deny a person beacause of their gender. -
Equal Credit Oppertunity Act
why: women coud be refused to get a credit card and their husbamds had to sign for it.
Significance: it made them unable to refuse a creditcard to a woman because of her gender. -
1919 Voting Rights
Why: It gave women the right to vote and be equal in polotical status
Significance: women could have a say in the political side of things and could vote. They were equal to men then too.
