RESEARCH: Laws that have transformed the lives of women

https://www.indy100.com/article/9-laws-transformed-lives-women-revolution-suffrage-feminist-8260921

Article published: 17th March 2018

This article focused on nine key laws, from the United Kingdom. These nine laws include:

• The right to vote - Representation of the People Act 1918
• Matrimonial Causes Act 1937
• The right to abortion - Abortion Act 1967, NHS Act 1946 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
• The right to contraception - NHS (Family Planning) Act 1967.
• The right to equal pay - Equal Pay Act 1970 and Equality Act 2010.
• Shared parental leave - The Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014.
• Same sex adoption - Adoption and Children Act 2002.
• Marital rape deemed unlawful - Sexual Offences Act 2003 and is shown in the case of R v R (1991) UKHL 12.
• The sex discrimination Act - Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

After reading this article, I have decided to base my research off of the basis of these nine laws. This is because the article focuses on British laws, not American (as I have found that the majority of articles tend to be based in America). The article is from a British newspaper.

I also trusted this source as the article is from the Indy 100, which is from the Independent newspaper. I consider the Independent a reliable source, however it may have elements of bias. Contradictory to this, the newspaper claims to be "free from party political bias, free from proprietorial influence" (according to this website here).

As a result of this article, I am going to make a list of laws and legislations that I want to include in my final piece. This article has really helped me, and I have founded it very useful.

(In the post above, I have noted my findings for further use, all information is from the link at the top of the page.)