Timeline of Women's Rights (Other Than Voting) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The timeline signifies the major events in the development of women's rights and issues of gender inequality. It does not concentrate merely on the right to vote (Timeline of women's suffrage). The Constitution of Medina is declared, which outlines many of Muhammad's early reforms under Islam, including an improved legal status for women in Islam, who were generally given greater rights than women in pre-Islamic Arabia and medieval Europe. Female taxpaying members of the cities' guilds are allowed to vote and stand for election during the age of liberty; this right is banned (for local elections) in 1758 and (general elections) in 1771.