Why did women obtain rights?

Why did women obtain basic rights? Were these won or granted? I will examine a fundamental right obtained by women - the right to manage and own property once married - and argue that this right was mostly granted by men over time in response to incentives created by lower fertility. In particular, I will show that having fewer children made men care more about the rights of their daughters and less, relatively, about the privileges that they enjoyed as husbands. In other words, the cost to men as fathers became more important than the benefits to men as husbands from a patriarchal regime.

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La 17 e 18esima edizione sono state organizzate in collaborazione con Gruppo Sole 24 Ore.