Condition of Woman in the Early Year

Many factors of inequality have been treated to women which lead to the women's right movement in the year 1848. With all the contributing factors of inequality, women began to feel more and more untolarantable towards the treatment that they received from society. Treatment they received not only have maimed them physically, but had also affected them emotionally and spiritually. First of all, married women were legally dead in th eyes of the law. This means that the law no longer take care of married women, which lead to injustice treatment against them. When married women were being mistreated, no law was being made to punish the convict. Husbands were then given legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity. Furthermore, married women had no property rights, but is still required to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes. And when women are being divorced, the law for divorce and child custody favored the men, giving women no rights or say. In the eyes of society, women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men, despite the fact that some of them are far more capable of taking care of themselves. Women in general, were not allowed to gain education as no college or university would accept women students, let alone entering professions such as law or medicine. And to make matters worse, most occupations were closed to women, and when women did work, they were only paid a fraction of what men earned.

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