Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting)

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The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents). The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage. The timeline excludes ideological changes and events within feminism and antifeminism; for that, see Timeline of feminism.

Before the 21st century

21st century

In the 2000s

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

The bill also:

2010

2010s

2011

2012

2013

Unless: "[...] in the case of a pregnancy of not more than 20 weeks' gestation, the person doing the act:

2014

2015

2016

The bill aims to promote gender equality in the province, it allows women to get a residence order, the victim has a right to stay in the house if she does not want to vacate it or the defendant has to provide an alternative accommodation to the victim if she wants so. Further, if she is being harassed or stalked, she can claim a protection order which ordains the defendant to not communicate with her or stay a certain distance from her. In addition, the victim can also seek monetary relief from the defendant to meet expenses occurred and losses suffered through monetary orders in this bill.

2017

2018

2019

2020s

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

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