Following the Revolution, state legislatures
a.) gave married women the right to file lawsuits and sign contracts.
b.) ensured that married women remained economically subordinate.
c.) enacted community property laws to protect married women.
d.) took steps to guarantee the economic security of widows.
b.) ensured that married women remained economically subordinate. (After revolution, duties and obligations worked to hold women in a subordinate place within the state and conditioned society in England and America to view women as dependents whose obligations were to submit rather than to lead or resist. Women, it was assumed, needed protection; they would not, should not, or could not be revolutionaries.)
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