The legal status of women in the United States of America, January 1, 1938
Subtitle: report for North Carolina
Contributors: Sullivan, Mary Loretta; United States. Women's Bureau; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Series: Bulletin (United States. Women's Bureau) -- 157-32
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Women; Legal status, laws; Married women; Women's rights
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: This report examines laws and statutes relating to the legal status of women, particularly married women, in North Carolina. When appropriate, applicable court cases, reports, and selections from the State Constitution are referenced. Topics covered include contracts and property rights, marriage and divorce, parents and children, and political rights. This report was generated to supplement a nationwide study on the same issue.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: The legal status of women in the United States of America, January 1, 1938 : report for North Carolina. Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1939. vi, 20 p. ; 23 cm. Bulletin of the Women's Bureau ; no. 157-32 At head of title: United States Department of Labor, Frances Perkins, Secretary; Women's Bureau, Mary Anderson, Director "An advance printing of individual State material, constituting part of a compilation now being prepared to show the present legal status of women in the United States of America." "Studies are the work of Sara L. Buchanan, of the Women's Bureau research staff ... assisted by Mary Loretta Sullivan."--P. iii.

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