Changing Role of women

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Changing Role of .... Women ....

For many years, very few women had enjoyment and had the opportunity and freedom to be educated or seek any type of edification or training. A majority of women were justified and treated differently than men; there were a lot of differences between the two sexes. Men was known as the ruler of the family and the breadwinners whereas on the other hand women had to stay home take care of the family and do the house work such as: cleaning, cooking and bearing children, As women was left home they were dependent on there male partners.

Unlike these days all the decisions were made and taken by the husband and the wife was to follow those decisions. Furthermore, the freedom of the women was restricted as most families were extended. The relationship of husband and wife was described wife as a servant and the husband as the master. Men had all the power and owned all the property and the position of women was powerless and frail.

Before marriage a woman has her own identity, however when a woman is married she effectively lost her legal identities that she enjoyed as single person. The law didn't recognize the existence of the women within her marriage but her legal identity had become her husbands after marriage. Regarding to marriage William Blackstone wrote in commentaries on the law of England, 1765, that in respect to marriage he said:

"By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is ,the vary being or legal existence of the women is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs everything and is therefore called in our law French a feme-covert."

In legal sense the husband was the owner of all her property that she had before marri9nswage.after marriage they were known as unito caro. Nevertheless the rights and responsibilities of men and women have changed and have given equal access and opportunities to both genders. Under the family law act 1975 (cwlth) and the property (relationships) legislation amendment act 1999 (NSW) have given the opportunity to women to keep there identity and also to treated equally as men, women are now allowed to keep there property under there name and to be as an individual. The later piece of the legislation covers people in NSW in relationships where they are not married this also includes getting married and having a sexual relationship with the same sex couples.
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Once a woman got married she lost control over any personal property she acquired before and during her marriage and any property she owned came under her husband. This situation stayed the same until the Married Women's and property act and also married persons (property and torts)act 1901 was passed these acts were very vital to women as they gave them grater control and power over there personal property. This also protected woman from there husbands who misused the right and who was a spendthrift. It also protected any property left in a will. So in this way ...

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