Liberated Woman 03

Assalaamu alaikum [peace be to you],


I was searching for the Timeline of women's rights in several websites, and I found them horribly biased. they tell us that women's rights movements and achievements started only 2 centuries ago. what they don't tell you in these articles is that they started their timeline over 1000 years late. So I made a little research to bring you the real timeline of women's rights.

^{Note: the following is by no means the full detailed timeline of women's rights.}
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7th century: restoration of Islam:
- The first woman's right laws in history
- female infanticide banned.
- Raising the status of women in the society to that of the man.
- Limiting the woman's responsibilities to the functions that are fit with her nature.
- Honoring and respecting women for their role of motherhood and education.
- Restoration of women's legal rights such as the right to inherit, to wed and to divorce, to voice her opinion, to testify in the court, to own property, to do her own business...
- Women keep their maiden name after marriage.

some names:
- Khadeeja: The first Muslim after the Prophet is a woman.
- Sumayyah: The very first martyr in Islam.
- Women were involved in the formation of the Islamic State: Umm Ammara -participant in the 2nd covenant of Aqabah-
- Koaiba Bint Saad Al Aslamiyya. first nurse in Islam
- Ayesha bint Abu Bakr: scholar in hadith, jurisprudence, an educator, and an orator.
- Samra bint Nuhayk al Asadiyya - the first market inspector
- Ash Shifa bint Abdullah - skilled in medicine and public administration - appointed as administrator of the marketplace in Madina and later appointed as the head of health and safety in Basra.
and many others...

from the 8th century to the 18th century:
From Andalusia (Muslim Spain) to India:
- public schools spread all around Muslim lands open for boys and girls.
- 859, Fatima Al-Fihriyya founded the oldest academic degree-granting university existing today, the University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco.
- There were various opportunities for female education. women could study, earn academic degrees, and qualify as scholars and teachers.
- women attended lectures and study sessions at mosques, schools, intellectual gatherings and other public places...
- During the Ayyubid dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries, 160 mosques and schools were established in Damascus, 26 of which were funded by intellectual women.
- Women worked in a wide range of commercial activities and diverse occupations. in the primary sector (as farmers, for example), secondary sector (as construction workers, dyers, spinners, etc.) and tertiary sector (as investors, doctors, nurses, presidents of guilds, brokers, peddlers, lenders, scholars, government officers and ministers... etc.)
- Muslim women also held a monopoly over certain branches of the textile industry, the largest and most specialized and market-oriented industry at the time, in occupations such as spinning, dyeing, and embroidery.
- Women were an important part in Muslim hospitals all around Muslim lands. Women also worked as surgeons.
- Muslim women were fist female physicians in the world.
- in 15th-century, both women and men were in attendance at the intellectual gatherings of the Ismailis where women were addressed directly by the Imam.
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18th century
1722 Russia: Ban against forced marriages
1771 USA, NY: Husbands must have their wives' consent to sell their property
1776 France: Female tailors are allowed in to the guild of tailors
1786 Russia: Primary and high schools for females
1788 France: noble widows are known to have voted to the French States-General in 1788–89 in the absence of a male guardian.
1788 USA: Female citizens may stand for election for federal offices, though they still could not vote.
1789 France is the first country in Europe where it is suggested that women are to be in the Assembly of the Estates, there are several demands to include women in the reforms of the right to vote.
1791 France: Equal inheritance rights (abolished in 1804)
1792 France: Divorce is legalized for both sexes (abolished for women in 1804)
1793 France: The question of women's right to vote is discussed in the Parliament of France; women's right to vote is acknowledged as a principle, but it is still put aside with the explanation that the time is not right to make this a reality and is therefore postponed.

19th century
1809 USA, Connecticut: Married women are allowed to execute wills
1821 USA, Maine: Married women allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse
1835 USA, Arkansas: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name
1842 Sweden: Compulsory Elementary school for both sexes
1844 USA, Maine: Married women granted trade license
1845 Sweden: Equal inheritance for sons and daughters (in the absence of a will)
1845 USA, Florida: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name
1848 USA, NY, The world's first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls,
1849 Amelia Jenks Bloomer publishes and edits Lily the first prominent women's rights newspaper.
1855 Lucy Stone becomes first woman on record to keep her own name after marriage
1857 Denmark: Trade- and crafts professions are opened to unmarried women
1859 Denmark: The post of teacher at public schools are opened to women
1860 USA, New York and Maryland: Married women granted the right to control their own earnings
1861 France: Julie-Victoire Daubié becomes the first female student.
1861 USA: Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first female dentist.
1863 Denmark: Colleges open to women
1869 Russia: University Courses for women are opened, which opens the profession of teacher, law assistant and similar lower academic professions for women (and in 1883, all outside of the capital is closed)
1870 Great Britain: Married Women's Property Act 1870
1870 India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870
1871 Japan: Women are allowed to study in the USA (though not yet in Japan itself)
1876 Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands: Universities open to women
1879 France: Colleges and secondary education open to women
1880 Australia, France : Universities open to women
1881 France: Women allowed to open a bank account in their own name
1883 Belgium, Romania: Universities open to women
1897 France: Both married and unmarried women allowed to act as witness in a civil court and are thereby acknowledged as an individual in a juridical sense

20th century
1900 France: Women allowed to practice law
1902 China: Foot binding of girls is abolished.
1907 France: Married women given control of their income
1920 China: The first female students are accepted in the Peking University, soon followed by universities all over China.
1923 First Equal Rights Amendment Introduced in Congress
1942 Russia: Women formally accepted in to the military
1950 China: Statute grants women equal right to property, to seek divorce and to inheritance.
1956 In Britain, legal reforms say that women teachers and civil servants should receive equal pay.
1971 Over 4,000 women take part in the first Women’s Liberation march in London.
1975 The Sex Discrimination Act makes it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training.
1977 International Women’s Day is formalised as an annual event by the UN General Assembly
1998 The European Union passes the Human Rights Act, guaranteeing basic principles of life for everyone.
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looking at this timeline, one can feel the hard struggle and the long time for non-Muslim and western women to get their rights back.
But Now you can have an idea as to why so many non-Muslim women, when they learn the truth about Islam, they choose to follow it...




I hope this was beneficial.


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