Women's RIghts in Marriage

Throughout history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's significant professions. Resulting a stereotype that "a woman's place is in the home". Young girls tended to learn from her mother's example of cooking, cleaning, and caring for children because it was the behavior expected of her when she grew up. Neither the young girls families or their teachers expected them to prepare for a future other than marriage and motherhood.

Since Womens had a lack of education they were expected to marry in order to find someone to support them since they did not have the knowledge to do many jobs. This lead into the social and financial pressures that a women should get married. Most women were often married because girls parents would often search for a man who would be wealthy have a title and could advance their social status. A married woman, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. Women's were legally defenseless to object on their Husbands opinions. Once there Husbands went off to work they expected their wives to do all the things their mothers had done for them. Cook, clean take care of the kids and always look like a doll all at the same time.

http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/marriage.shtml