It is anyway harder for a woman to make her way through the world and make her point than a man. In the area of divorce, the hurdles have been tremendously high and it has taken too long to get a legislature that is at least close to fair. Women needed the power to divorce their husbands more as an empowering gesture than anything else ? at least to begin with. It has been an uphill journey for the fairer sex. The current favourite theme of several newspapers is the way British women have grown rich through divorce. It is a planned and sinister negation of the fact that the richest women of the nation have amassed their wealth through their own effort, and more than three quarters of all women in the UK become financially worse off after divorce than before.

Apart from the financial after-effects of divorce as referred to above, there are other effects that divorce has on a woman. We have listed some of them as follows:

It has been observed that women also recover faster emotionally than men as they have a tougher time financially and have to struggle with their children, housing etc. This leaves them with no time to brood as the struggle for the basic amenities of life takes up their time.

Though it sounds unbelievable, divorce has some positive effects as well.

The negative effects have already been hinted at. Basically, women have to struggle harder financially, bring up children almost single-handed, chase errant ex partners to make them pay the maintenance and stick to the visitation rules, and try to get back to the professional career after a gap of years that came between.

These points may help in coping with the situation.