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1 online resource (vii, 26 pages) |
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Women and social movements: scholar's edition
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| Contents |
Message from Martha Griffiths / Martha Griffiths -- Introduction -- Marriage ; History -- Domicile -- Right to support -- Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act -- Physical abuse -- Social security -- Widowhood ; Inheritance rights -- Social security and pensions -- Federal inheritance tax -- Divorce ; Assistance from Federal government in collecting support -- Time for a change -- Recommendations of the Homemaker Committee ; Reforming estate, inheritance, and gift tax laws -- Coverage of homemakers under social security -- Inheritance rights of spouses -- Economic provisions of divorce laws -- Displaced homemakers bill -- Government collection of data on divorce, alimony, property division, child custody, and child support -- State help in collecting child support payments for families not on welfare |
| Summary |
The legal status of homemakers is of most direct importance to the minority of women whose husbands neglect to make a will or fail to be honorable and decent in their relationships with their wives and children, for these are the women who experience the effects of the law most directly. The legal status of homemakers, however, has great significance for all women, for the parents of daughters, and for the society at large. The rights of homemakers under support laws, property laws, divorce laws, and inheritance laws are the concrete evidence of the value society places on the homemaker's role. If women's work is not valued in the home, it has a low value outside the home. The laws in most States are not grounded in this evaluation of the homemaker's role. The laws under consideration in this leaflet apply to all wives (and in most cases to husbands) whether they work at home or outside the home. This paper, however, has been written from the viewpoint of the homemaker not employed outside the home, because she (or he) is the most vulnerable to economic inequalities |
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Includes footnotes with bibliographical references (pages 17-20), bibliographical references to useful publications (pages 24-26) |
| Notes |
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Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- North Dakota
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Husband and wife -- North Dakota
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Government publications.
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Husband and wife
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Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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North Dakota
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Instructional and educational works.
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Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Griffiths, Martha W. (Martha Wright), 1912-2003, author.
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United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee.
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