Women Legal Rights

            Throughout most of American early history, women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Early American cultural beliefs allowed women only limited roles in society. Many people believed that women's natural roles were as mothers and wives. These people considered women to be better suited for childbearing and homemaking rather than for involvement in the public life of business or politics. Widespread belief that women were less intelligence than men led most societies to limit women's education to learning domestic skills. Well-educated, upper-class men controlled most positions of employment and power in society.
             During the early history of the United States, a man virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to send his children to the poorhouse, the mother was legally defenseless to object. Some communities, however, modified the common law to allow women to act as lawyers in the courts, to sue for property, and to own property in their own names if their husbands agreed. Beginning in the 1830s, states passed laws and statutes that gradually gave married women greater control over property.
             In addition, women in the early America didn't have the right to vote until 1920 were amendments were made to the constitution of the United States. American women political roles were minimal.
             Finally, women in early America didn't have the right to work jobs they want like men. Women were allowed for few jobs only such as teaching and nursing. After women got some rights in working in more jobs, they also didn't have all of their rights. Women usually got paid at the minimum while other men got paid more fordoing the same job.