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Laws discriminate against women;
marriage becomes unequal union
Useful gifts best
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Newlyweds are apt to have
numerous gatherings to show off
their new home. They invite one
clutch of guests after another to
put that new china and silver to
use and to share their happiness
with others.
Engagement and wedding gifts
to aid them do their hosting with
flair are among today’s most
welcome presents. Fortunately,
the stores are full of witty and
useful items in all price ranges,
dedicated to the pleasure of en
tertaining.
Here are some gift sugges
tions, including a few from a
newlywed hostess who recently
did her share of nose pressing
against shop windows.
1 High on her list of possibles
is a see-through ice bucket with
a dark plexiglass dome. And
she feels an inexpensive but
thoughtful gift for the dishwash
erless couple is a supply of clear
plastic disposable glasses in
highball and old fashioned sizes.
These can be found in smart
smoky shades.
The newest decanters are amus
ing and arty. Some are cylin
drical, some are stemmed and
have long, narrow necks, some
have spouts. If you’d like, add
contents with top status for fill
ing the decanters—such as im
ported Polish vodka to gurgle
icy cold from a tall, skinny, lid
ded pitcher. Or introduce young
sophisticates to that low-proof
aperitif, ruby-red Campari, so
popular in Rome and Paris,
which makes an art object out
of the new teardrop decanter
with silver handle and flush-set
spout.
Gag gifts are good for a laugh
and then get tossed out. So stick
with useful gadgets like a car
tridge - propelled plunger that
pops out wine corks. Consider a
small brass or chrome wine rack
for the budding gourmets; an
encyclopedia of wines to help
their choices, or a lavishly illus
trated party cookbook.
By SUE DAVIS
Battalion Women’s Editor
The days when a man went
out, clubbed a woman over the
head and dragged her home with
him as if she were a sack of pota
toes are long gone. Or are they?
The methods of obtaining a
mate have been greatly refined,
to be sure, but the wife’s status
has yet to rise above that of a
sack of potatoes. In most states,
a woman has no more rights than
a piece of furniture.
More than 1,000 state laws dis
criminate against women’s rights
to property, inheritance, guard
ianship, management of earnings
and control of a family’s wealth
— with the married woman their
principal victim. Obviously, mar
riage is an unequal union.
Laws which apply to marriage
have been constantly modified in
the past 100 years. The result is
two types of laws which govern
wives’ rights. These are the
“common law,” which contains
the basic feudal concepts, and the
supposedly more enlightened
“community property” approach.
Forty-two states use the com
mon law concept which states
that during marriage, the income
and property acquired by each
spouse remains separately owned.
The number of working wives is
definitely rising, but most still
depend on their husbands’ in
comes.
The community property idea
sounds good in theory. Every
thing, including property and
earnings, acquired during the
marriage is jointly owned by
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both the husband and wife. This
only conceals a catch, however. In
seven of the eight community
property states, the husband
alone has the right to control
and manage the joint estate.
Even though the wife contributes
to the family income, she has no
say as to how the income can be
used.
Texas is the only state that is
completely fair. Thb law reads:
“each spouse shall have sole man
agement, control and disposition
of that community property
which he or she would'have own
ed if a single person.”
It further states that if prop
erty owned by one spouse is com
bined with that of the other
spouse, it is subject to joint man
agement, unless otherwise ar
ranged by the partners.
All the laws are not against
the wife, however. She has no
duty to contribute to the family
income. If a marriage ends in
divorce, the law becomes a strong
protector of the wife’s right to
receive support from her former
husband, unless the wife is the
“guilty” party.
The law makes stern demands
on the husband. Even if the form
er wife is independently wealthy,
he must still pay her what the
court demands. A divorced wom
an must be paid support that will
reflect the life style she had
been accustomed to while she was
married.
A couple cannot remove the ob
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ligation a husband has to sup
port his wife by a private agree
ment. These agreements ard
made void by what the law c&lls
“public policy.” Exactly what this
means is that the courts have the
final say in such matters.
Stacked in favor of the hus
band are the “crimes of passion,”
murder or manslaughter pro-
yoked by adultery. The law of
the frontier is not dead; it is
alive and well in Texas. Defense
to such a crime is based on the
“unwritten law.” On this basis,
a husband who kills his wife’s
lover has a complete defense. A
wife who kills her husband’s mis
tress has none.
Besides these discriminations,
wives have another barrier to
equal rights. Wives who wish to
set up their own businesses must
often go to court to prove their
fitness. This law seems to state
that a woman is both physically
and mentally inferior to men
once they marry.
In 1944, the Florida Supreme
Court summarized the situation:
“. . . a woman’s responsibilities
and faculties remain intact from
age of maturity until she finds
her mate; whereupon incom
petency seizes her and she needs
protection in an extreme degree.
Upon the advent of widowhood
she is reinvested with all her
capabilities which had been dor
mant during her marriage, only
to lose them again upon remar
riage.”
Women are discriminated
against in their jobs, too. The
protective labor laws were origin
ally designed to prevent exploita
tion of women by their employ
ers. They are now being used as
a cover to put working women at
a disadvantage to men.
If the law provides for addi
tional facilities for women, such
as restrooms, an employer is dis
couraged by the expense. Some
states restrict the weights wom
en can lift. These are usually un
realistic because of the heavy
work women do at home. The
number of hours a woman can
work in a day and a week are
often set by law, therefore de
priving women of earning more
money through overtime.
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U.S. SENATOR
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