sentences:  Marital power (puissance maritale) was abolished in 1938.However, the legal repeal of the specific doctrine of "marital power" does not necessarily grant married women the same legal rights as their husbands (or as unmarried women) as was notably the case in France, where the legal subordination of the wife (primarily coming from the Napoleonic Code) was gradually abolished with women obtaining full equality in marriage only in the 1980s.Women were not allowed to become judges in France until 1946.