After the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs, I was part of a legal team that challenged Ohio’s ban on abortion in court. A few months later, we had an initial victory: The restriction ...

As a historian, I appreciated Craig Fehrman’s reminding readers of the impact of women during the American Revolution (“The war for independence carved out space for women’s liberty,” Ideas, April 6), ...

By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, and her condition during her marriage is called her ...

Cheryl Simon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Coverture was supposed to operate in the United States in the same way it operated in the rest of the common law world. Generally speaking, a married woman was incapable of owning property or making a ...

Last week, I received an email from a reader highlighting situations where married women could not make decisions without their husbands, and asking whether a woman becomes the charge of her husband ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Legal principles of coverture written into the Indian Act continue to negatively impact the rights of Indigenous women.