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…

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.