1882 | Human Rights, Social Justice
Human Rights, Social Justice
Parliament passes a second Married Women's Property Act in August, enabling British married women to own property in their own right (see 1870). Passage of the measure follows efforts by women's rights champion Richard Marsden Pankhurst, who 3 years ago married Emmeline Goulden, now 25 (see 1903).
Parliament hears an address from Josephine Butler, now 54, who has been touring the country in a crusade against the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869, taking her case to working men whose daughters have been forced into prostitution. Parliament will repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1886.