This article provides an index of women's rights by country in various domains.
Women's emancipation Women's right in: Forced marriage prohibited?(see: Forced marriage) Unmarried women emancipated? Married women emancipated? Men and women equalized in marriage? Notes and sources AFGHANISTAN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES A woman can be head of household in the same way as a man Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin. American Dictatorships and Democracies, by Mala Htun, pp 102 Contemporary Western European Feminism, by Gisela Kaplan, p. 133 BAHRAIN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/indicator/sg-iht-asst-eq Male and female surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets (1=yes; 0=no)] Bruni Overview of Family Law Married women are required by law to obey their husbands, 2023 Article 1749 of the Chile Civil Code stripulates man is the head of the householdChile – The Civil Code, 3 November 2021 New Marriage Law EGYPT OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Richard J Evans (1979). Kvinnorörelsens historia i Europa, USA, Australien och Nya Zeeland 1840–1920 (The Feminists: Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia, 1840–1920) Helsingborg: LiberFörlag Stockholm. (Swedish) Gabon revises legislation to protect women and increase their economic role, 2 March 2022 Gambia: UN Hails Gambia's Ban On Child, Forced Marriages, 13 July 2016 Legal frameworks addressing gender equality within marriage and family Women can take the same jobs as men Hendry, Marriage in Changing Japan, pp. 21-2 JORDAN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Kenya: Update to KEN23118.E of 21 February 1996 on incidence of forced marriage among Muslims and availability of state protection KUWAIT OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Legal Capacity of Married Person Act, 2006 LIBYA OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES MALAYSIA: OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Consent required for marriage of adult women, but "silence equates consent" for underage girlsMAURITANIA OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES The Moudawana: Morocco’s Nearly 20-Year Old Family Code (Southern states) (Sharia states) NIGERIA OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES "outlawed+forced+marriages"&pg=PA87&printsec=frontcover North Korea Markets and Military Rule OMAN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES QATAR OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES SAUDI ARABIA OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICESTrapped How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa Comparative Review of Muslim Family Laws in the Greater Horn of Africa Region SUDAN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) SYRIA OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Apinop Atipiboonsin: The History of Thai Family Laws, page 7 ‘We can’t even buy our own land’: the Tongan women pushing for change Grassroots efforts in Tunisia to advance women's rights, 2017 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Mai, T., and T. Le. Women in Vietnam. N.p.: Hanoi: Foreign Languages House, n.d. Print. Consent required for marriage of previously married women, but "silence equates consent" for never-married womenYEMEN OVERVIEW OF MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS & PRACTICES Canada Women's right in: Married women emancipated? Men and women equalized in marriage? Notes and sources19221920: equal guardianship rightsTime Line of Women’s Rights 18731917190019221895?1876?1884194118841927Chronology of Some Legal Landmarks in the History of Canadian Women1903?1964198119071926
Australia Women's right in: Married women emancipated? Men and women equalized in marriage? Notes and sources 1879? 1890? 1884? 1883? 1884? 1892?A History of Married Women’s Real Property Rights
United States Women's right in:Passage of the Married Women's Property Acts and Earnings Acts in the United States: 1850 to 1920Married Women's Property Laws and Female Commercial Activity: Evidence from United States Patent Records, 1790-1895Interjurisdictional Competition and the Married Women’s Property Acts Married women emancipated? Men and women equalized in marriage?Notes and sources Separate earnings Separate property Work without husband permission18771867?1981The Legal Status of Women in Alabama, II: A Crazy Quilt Restitched????187318711871?187318711868?187218721872?1861/18741861/18741874?187718771877?18731873/5??18921943??18611873?1983Harris v. Harris????1915/188719031887?1861/918611874?18791879??1870/318731873?1858/681858/681868?187318941873?192819161894198018571844/551844?1842/6018601860?1846/741855/721874?19111855??186918691874?1871/31871/801871?1875/91875/9??1874/871872/871874?1871/811871/811881?187318731873?18671860/71876?187418521874??1884??186018481860?1873/191318681874?187718771877?18611861???1883?1984Senate OKs Bill to Erase Man as Head of Household in Oklahoma1872/8018781880?18721848??1872/41872/48??18871868/701970?18771877187719191870/1919??1913/681913/68?1968Texas Community Property Law: Conservative Attitudes, Reluctant Change1895/71872/951895?188818811881?18881877/8??1881/91881/91889?189318681893?18721850?1921The Wait case and equal rights for women1869/761869/761876?
Women's voting rights
Women's right to vote by country or territory Women's reproductive rights
Emergency contraceptive availability by country or territory
Laws regarding sterilization for contraceptive purposes around the world
Women's body integrity rights
Female genital mutilation laws by country
See also Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting)
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