1944: (The Law Crafted for Legally Married Women — the Law Being Crafted for Legally Married Women, Thus with Less Than a Majority of Women in Legal Marriage…

1944: (The Law Crafted for Legally Married Women — the Law Being Crafted for Legally Married Women, Thus with Less Than a Majority of Women in Legal Marriages the Law’s Immediate Impact Being Limited — but It Established the Principle That a Woman’s Labor Belonged to Her): The law was crafted for legally married women. Thus, with less than a majority of women in legal marriages, the law’s immediate impact was limited — but it established the principle that a woman’s labor belonged to her, a legal precedent that would ripple outward from the marriage contract into the broader question of women’s economic sovereignty.