"If a woman ran away, a husband could legally track her down and return her as if she were stolen goods. There were no laws to prevent the abuse of wives or children...” (Goldsmith 49). "Among the upper classes, a good way to rid oneself of an independent–minded wife was to confine her to an insane asylum.” (Goldsmith 50). |
During Marie Curie's lifetime, women were not living under very good conditions. They were taxed if they owned property, but could not vote or run for office. Divorce was rare, but doing so meant giving up all property, child custody, and income to their husbands, and men were not obligated to give them anything. Women were treated as property and there weren't any laws protecting them or their children.
Women were not supposed to do much else than to give birth to children and take care of them. An independent thinker would then be deemed as ‘crazy’. Independence and being successful in a career was discouraged and uncommon, and was a cause for women not being in the field of science. It was also hard for a women to get an education for a job in the first place. |
Sources for this tab:
-Goldsmith 49, 50
-Goldsmith
-Dailymail.co.uk
-Goldsmith 49, 50
-Goldsmith
-Dailymail.co.uk