The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-27
ne LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN
IN IOWA
rattle 6elveI Evans, Presi.
cent Iowa Equal Suffrage
Association

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L me wife after marriage owns
ner clothes and other personal nron.
cry owned by her before marriage.
& Inc wife owns her wages earn
GU outside the home. She cannot bv
ID" enforce payment for her services
performed in the home for husband
and children.
8. The husband has no authority
over the wife's real estate or the
rentals therefrom.
4. A wife may convey her sepa.
rate personal property without ner
husbands consent, but to convey per-
Iect title to real estate husband must
join in conveyance.
.. A wife's separate property can
De levied on for family necessaries
ordered by her, but if the necessaries
are consumed by the family she can
not secure repayment.
D. The law does not secure to a
wife any portion of the family income
Tree from husbandly dictation.
Z. The surplus of property accu-
mulated by joint efforts of husband
and wife is owned and controlled by
the person in whose name the title
is kept But in almost every instance
the title is in the name of the hus-
band.
8. A husband las no control over
his wife's personal property or liberty
except that which comes from control
over the family pocketbook and ex-
cept such as she permits or suffers
him to have
8. Spouses' interests in each 9TH
er's real estate are equal, and they
inherit equally from each other and
from deceased child.
10. The wife is entitled to a voice
in the choice of the family home only
within reasonable limitations.
II. The punishment for wife-de-
sertion is one year in penitentiary or
six months in jail.
II. The legal causes for divorce
are the same for both spouses, and
are as follows: 1st. Adultery, subse-
quent to marriage. End. Desertion
without cause for two years. 3rd.
Conviction of felony after marriage.
4th. When after marriage party be-
comes addicted to habitual drunken
ness. 5th. Inhuman treatment such
as endangers the life of the other.
49,. A wife is legally responsible
for the support of the children and
her husband.
IA. She has a right to share in the
children's earnings
Is. A father is liable for family ex-
penses for wife or child, even if the
expenses are those of which he dis
approves if they are necessaries, con-
sidering his station in life.
16. A wife is entitled to share
in the guardianship and control of the
children, so that her wishes may
guide in the choice of church, school,
clothing, medicine and work.
II. No father can will away from
mother the custoday of their IN
born child.
IS. Husband and wife are legally
competent to testify for each other in
any case, but cannot testify against
each other, except in case of crime
of one against the other, or in d.
vorce one against the other.
10. A wife may make contracts or
enter into partnerships without her
husbands consent.
90. The public schools, from the
lowest grade to the state university
are open to girls on the same terms
as to boys. Women are represented
on the boards of control of these va
rious schools.
81. Women are employed in the
higher positions in these schools.
%. The salaries paid the women
do not average as high as the salaries
paid the men. The ratio they bear to
the salaries paid men is about to 4.
%. There are So women county
superintendents of schools elected
this year out of total of SO. No Wo-
men have been state superintendent.
"a. There are no school of1lcers
for whom women may vote.
25. The professional schools are
open to women.
26. Women are admitted to the
bar on the same terms as men. Ara
bella Mansfield, admitted in 1862
was the first woman admitted in the
United States.
q. Women are eligible through
special enactment, to positions as
state superintendent schools county
superintendent schools, county re-
corder. members school board. They
are salaried. They are eligible TO