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Essay / Women's Rights Rights - 2263
Women's rights have grown significantly in the United States over the years. Women's rights are much more flexible. They are allowed to be independent. While these new steps are a big step forward for women's rights in the United States, there are still things that need to be fixed. While in other countries, women's rights have not changed at all. There are women in some countries who are denied the right to go to school. They are also not considered equal to men. I will compare the rights of women in marriage as well as the legal system in the United States to those of women in other countries in the legal system as well as in marriage in the Middle East. Marriage in the United States" SECTION 1. The property, both real and personal, which every married woman now possesses, as her sole and distinct property; what accrues to her by descent, bequest, legacy, gift or grant; what she acquires by her trade, her business, her work or her concession the services, exercised or executed for her sole or separate account, what a married woman in this State possesses at the time of her marriage, as well as the rents, the fees; emissions and the proceeds of all such property, shall be and remain, despite her marriage, her sole and distinct property, and may be used, collected and invested by her in her own name, and shall not be subject to interference or control. of her husband, nor liable for her debts, except debts which may have been incurred for the support of herself or her children, by her as agent The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45). & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which significantly amended English law regarding the property rights of married women, which, among other things, allowed... ... middle of paper ... .... the girls, in a written message smuggled out of the prison during a visit with her mother, wrote: None of the human rights organizations visited us, and the prison administration did not visit us. approve a medical examination for us, following repeated attacks against us. They only performed pregnancy tests. ยป Women in these prisons are sexually, physically and mentally assaulted. They receive no help from any doctor, they are dehumanized. Yet the justice system that is supposed to protect them from these same attacks does nothing. They allow these women to be attacked and fail to punish the people who are supposed to keep them safe while they serve their sentences. Instead of helping women, the justice system blatantly ignores infections and life-threatening injuries. that women suffered during the attacks.