Nachschlagewerk zu Dewarim 24:1

In everything that Rav ever said about human conduct his intention to protect the weak against the strong is apparent, he tried in the first instance to make women independent and equal in their rights with men so that they should not be dependent on man’s caprice. At that time a man had the right to divorce his wife on the slightest pretext. The concept of “scandalous thing” (Deuteronomy, 24:1) was so interpreted that the slightest cause could serve as grounds for a divorce. It was enough for a man to see a more beautiful woman than his wife for him to divorce her.¹⁴⁵⁾145) גטין צ׳ א׳. But the woman could never get rid of the husband whom her father or older brother had chosen for her.