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Most important, Spartan women had economic power because they controlled their own properties, and those of their husbands.

It is estimated that in later Classical Sparta, when the male population was in serious decline, women were the sole owners of at least 35 % of all land and property in Sparta.

The laws regarding a divorce were the same for both men and women.

Unlike women in Athens, if a Spartan woman became the heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit ( an epikleros ), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to marry her nearest paternal relative.