Women's Rights in America and How They Fought For Them

content - the same number of grievances that was declared in
             their Declaration of Independence from England
             Her grievances included the following:
            
• Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law
            
• Women were not allowed to vote
            
• Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation
            
• Married women had no property rights
            
• Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to
             the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity
            
• Divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women
            
• Women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in
            
• Most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they
             were paid only a fraction of what men earned
            
• Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law
            
• Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university
            
• With only a few excep
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