Talk:Legal rights of women in history

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Notes

This page is at the moment only someone's (probably college) essay. It has some good information, but it needs a serious reworking, perhaps a complete rewriting, to be put into the proper Wikipedia format. Queerudite 00:50, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it comes mostly from the 1911 Britannica article on Woman (which you can review by checking the history of this redirect. Rossami (talk) 8 July 2005 00:16 (UTC)

--66.156.176.182 (talk) 21:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)==Talk About Early Legal Rights Of Women==

Women have had different legal rights since the dawn of mankind, even during hunter-gatherer societies. This needs to be pointed out, different legal rights of women did not only start during Mosiac Times. (unsigned post by Silverbackman)

The Blob about Scandinavia is completely wrong. Women had equal rights until Christianity came, even after that many of the old laws still applied. Among these is the right to divorce if her husband is not home for harvest (old viking heritage, he was assumed dead).

i wish someone would put somethin on here that actually made since and you could trust was the right answer

Yikes

So who the heck is going to rewrite this thing? I feel like it's pointless even editing it as it is. Alexander 007 04:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll rewrite it. It needs a scary amount of work but it looks like a valuable article. Kerowyn 09:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

geographic viewpoint

The current article focuses almost entirely on Western Europe, specifically ancient Rome and Christain societies. It badly needs sections on Africa, India, Asia, and probably also the tribal societies of the Americas and Australia. Kerowyn 09:16, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

This article should either be titled "Legal rights of women in Western history" or deleted. 68.40.42.127 17:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I see this has been unchanged for nearly a decade! I noticed the same. --Pmberkeley (talk) 02:34, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Before christianity

Ypu have to realise, that women's rights were greatly different before christianity in Europe. In Scandinavia, for example, women's rights were much better during Pagan times. --85.226.44.190 (talk) 09:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Roman section

Removed and replaced with the introduction to the women in Rome page, it as it was before had maybe 1-2 correct facts that are not at best half truths. It doesn't surprise me that the way it stands now features no source.

--ScriptusSecundus (talk) 00:13, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Mosaic law

This section was written from a distinctly skewed perspective. I have re-written it including adding information about various rights and protections women had equivalent, or, at times, moreso than men. -- Avi (talk) 04:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

This whole section is nonsense. Women's rights were highly restricted. More accurate is Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Judaism#Biblical_times — Preceding unsigned comment added by Belfire (talk • contribs) 15:33, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

south asia religions section

"East" is meaningless in an encyclopedia about the world for citizens of the world, that happens to be written in English - see e.g. WP:BIAS. i've restructured this to better match the pattern of the African, European and Middle East regions.

i've removed the reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20091027173742/http://www.geocities.com/~abdulwahid/hinduism/hindu_women.html because

• it starts out expressing an opinion rather than listing facts. Even the facts, in the form of the hymns are not correct according to accepted translations
• it is a geocities page, so there's no suggested checking of facts procedures by the website except for a single user
• i could not find the author

The source has no chance of being accepted as a WP:RS.

The two sections - Hindu law and Sikh law - still need a huge amount of work: this is an article about legal rights of women in history. The content of the sections should focus on this. Boud (talk) 08:12, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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THIS is What Makes Wikipedia a Joke

The entire section on Judaism contains not a single reference. THIS is why Wikipedia is a joke in contemporary society. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.161.163.35 (talk) 18:48, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Athelstan and Theft

"The laws of Athelstan contained a peculiarly brutal provision for the punishment of a female slave convicted of theft: She was to be burned alive by eighty other female slaves." Athelstan is commonly misunderstood as having an odd fixation on theft. In reality 'theft' became a catch all term for all manner of crimes including breaching the peace and disloyalty, crimes committed as often by powerful notables as lowly slaves. My source here is The Age of Athelstan by Paul Hill. LastDodo (talk) 12:17, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Rights of womens

We can be leaders no matter what 2001:D08:1B9B:45CE:F46A:947B:116A:F806 (talk) 11:09, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Leaders

How we look doesn’t matter . As long we respect others and help others we are leaders. We can be any leaders: Principle Parent Minister Prime mister Prefects Council Members 2001:D08:1B9B:45CE:F46A:947B:116A:F806 (talk) 11:21, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Environmental surroundings

When ever you see rubbish on the floor, help your Mother Earth by picking it up, throwing in the recycle bin ♻️ Or dustbin🚮 2001:D08:1B9B:45CE:F46A:947B:116A:F806 (talk) 11:29, 7 November 2022 (UTC)