Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, R. Richard; Grossbard, … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman’s right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The...