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Women in Modern History
When time moved on from the Dark Ages, to the age of Chivalry, and then to the Modern Age, women still had no rights. They had a low status which was no better than that of the Arab women in pre-Islamic Arabia. In 1790, a woman was sold for two shillings because, strangely enough, the cost of her living and housing was too much for the Church to pay. Women remained deprived of owing the property, and of the right of suing till 1882. Women's education was shameful, which other women hated even more than men. In 1849, Elisabeth Billa Coeil was the first woman who received an education in medical science, the women residing with her boycotted her and refused to talk to her. They would draw the end of their dresses lest they should touch hers, as if they were trying to escape something dirty and diseased. When they tried to establish an institute for teaching medicine to women, the doctor's assembly announced that it would dismiss any doctor who taught in this institute, and would declare any doctor who would be learn there invalid.a hadn't been taken out from the mire of slavery in which they had been thrown in, even before the era of Arab paganism |