Changing Position of Women in Society Flashcards
Knowledge
What would happen to a woman once married?
Once married, husband and wife became one person under the law. The husband would gain all his wife’s property once they were married.
Knowledge
WHat was the only way a married women could reclaim her wealth and property?
If she was widowed.
Knowledge
The Married Women’s Property Act 1884
Gave women the right to property that they gained before and after marriage.
Knowledge
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1884
Denied husbands the right to lock up their wifes for refusing sex and required maintenance to be paid to separated women whose husbands had been convicted of assault.
Knowledge
The Summary Jurisdiction Act 1895
Gave women who had been beaten the right to divorce.
Knowledge
The Divorce Act 1857
Made women able to divorce their husband if they could prove bigamy or long-term abandonment.
Analysis
Give an analysis point relating to what the new legislation gave women.
The new legislation was giving women more rights and access to their property and children and had more rights over themselves and their body.
Analysis
Give an analysis point relating to Britain in general.
These rights suggested that Britain was becoming more progressive for women and that the national vote was within their grasp.
Analysis+
Give an analysis+ point relating to a women’s role.
The rights that women were given were mostly linked to her role in the home and over her children, so were perhaps not so progressive for women.
Analysis+
Give an analysis+ point relating to further progress.
Women were still not on an even legal footing with men, which suggests further progress was needed before women would obtain the vote.
