The Legal Status of Women

The text is about how the women started to have equal rights and started to work, the history began in England that emphasized the principle of equal rights rather than tradition.Mississippi in 1839, followed by New York in 1848 and Massachusetts in 1854, passed laws allowing married women to own property separate from their husbands.
In the 19th century, women began working outside their homes in large numbers, in textile mills and garment shops.

During the 1960s several federal laws improving the economic status of women were passed. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 required equal wages for men and women doing equal work. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination against women by any company with 25 or more employees. A Presidential Executive Order in 1967 prohibited bias against women in hiring by federal government contractors.

Until well into the 20th century, women in Western European countries lived under many of the same legal disabilities as women in the United States.

Only after 1920 was legislation passed to provide working women with employment opportunities and pay equal to men. Not until the early 1960s was a law passed that equalized pay scales for men and women in the British civil service.

Opinion

The people realised that the women are capable enough and they have to have the same oportunities such as the men, because we have the same capables and we can do all kind of things that can do the men, so that´s because today we have equal rights but there is still a little discrimination in some jobs, specially for women and young people.