Family law determines the power a woman
has towards marriage, divorce, property,
children, and employment. While
liberalization of family law has occurred
throughout the world in the last half of
the 20th century, some countries continue
to enforce discriminatory family law
systems. This article surveys various
legal systems and identifies those most
and least likely to result in family law
equality. Civil law, common law, socialist
and post-socialist countries tend to have
the most liberal family laws, while
countries with religiously-inspired family