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Ep 1: How Far We’ve Come… The Married Women’s Property Act

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Women and the Law of Coverture

Florence Panell talks about growing up in the early 1880s. She was 108 years old at the time, and spoke of her life as a young girl. Women didn't have the right to vote or stand for election. But single women had more rights than married women because of law of coverture.

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