The legal status of homemakers in North Dakota /

The legal status of homemakers is of most direct importance to the minority of women whose husbands neglect to make a will or fail to be honorable and decent in their relationships with their wives and children, for these are the women who experience the effects of the law most directly. The legal s...

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Main Authors:	Maxwell, Nancy G., Griffiths, Martha W. (Martha Wright), 1912-2003 (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Alexander Street (Firm), United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington] : Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976.
Series:	Women and social movements: scholar's edition.
Subjects:	Married women > Legal status, laws, etc. > North Dakota. Husband and wife > North Dakota. Government publications. Publications officielles. Husband and wife Married women > Legal status, laws, etc. North Dakota Electronic books. Government publications > United States. Instructional and educational works. Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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Summary:	The legal status of homemakers is of most direct importance to the minority of women whose husbands neglect to make a will or fail to be honorable and decent in their relationships with their wives and children, for these are the women who experience the effects of the law most directly. The legal status of homemakers, however, has great significance for all women, for the parents of daughters, and for the society at large. The rights of homemakers under support laws, property laws, divorce laws, and inheritance laws are the concrete evidence of the value society places on the homemaker's role. If women's work is not valued in the home, it has a low value outside the home. The laws in most States are not grounded in this evaluation of the homemaker's role. The laws under consideration in this leaflet apply to all wives (and in most cases to husbands) whether they work at home or outside the home. This paper, however, has been written from the viewpoint of the homemaker not employed outside the home, because she (or he) is the most vulnerable to economic inequalities.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 26 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes footnotes with bibliographical references (pages 17-20), bibliographical references to useful publications (pages 24-26).