@Lana I'm 52. I remember the men in my family throwing fits about this. I thought they were stupid when I was 2, and that opinion never changed.

@Lana I'm 68. This, along with so many other rights, were mine from the time I graduated high school.

Thank you for reminding everyone.

@Lana my mother was banned from working because she had a child and she had to go to the church to apologise for having a child. This was Ireland in the 1970s

@Lana When I was a mere sprat of a lad, being raised in a very liberal and politically active family, I remember my mom blowing a gasket in 1965 because the Ford dealer wouldn’t sell her a car FOR CASH because she couldn’t legally register it. It was to be a surprise gift for my father. We weren’t rich but my mom worked two years OT and scrimped every nickel to get that car. We did get it and man that was a cool car!

@Lana The first car I purchased was through Marine Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania and they required me to have a male cosigner. At the time I wasn’t aware that I had no rights until that happened. #VOTE Freedoms are at stake. Not just women’s, he’ll take freedoms from men too. Read #project2025 it’s no joke.

@Lana My first girlfriend and I went into Bamberger's (now Macy's) and got our first credit card. She to celebrate not needing her dad to cosign for her. Me, being 18 and of legal age. She was older than I was and it was a big deal. (edit, oops, 18 not 19)

@Lana @catsalad
They may have changed the law 50 years ago, but that didn't stop banks from allowing, hypothetically, my dad to walk into a bank in 2005 or so and take out a loan for $5000 against my mother's credit without her knowledge.

(In the hypothetical end the bank had to eat the loan when my dad filed bankruptcy, at least.)

@Lana if you’re Swiss, the women around you in their middle seventies and older reached voting age without having the vote.

Women’s rights are not givens.

@Lana I'm 61. My mom and all of my aunts, by law, had to quit their jobs when they married.

One of my aunts worked for an automobile importer, early '50s. He hated to see her go, she was really good at her job.

@Lana I worry that young women today do not know this and are unaware of how fragile women’s rights are.

@luv4music1231 What's wild is that, at the turn of the last century, there were whole groups of women out there fighting against women gaining the right to vote. These were inteligent, well-spoken women who, for reasons unknown to me, felt very passionate about this.

@Lana let's not forget that our mothers finally were allowed to sign their work contract themselves and it didn't need the signature of the hushand anymore!1!

@Lana
When I was 13 in the 1980s, I remember watching my mother fight with a major furniture chain store who insisted they needed her husband's permission before she could buy a new couch. We walked out, couchless.

@Lana Sorry to bother yoy, but what country was that?

@Lana My mother was a teacher in the 60s. As soon as you got married you were put on the temporary/substitute staff. It was assumed (expected?) that you would soon leave to have babies.

@Lana Yep. That's the truth. I was one of the women who gained the right o establish credit on my own. Unbelievable that any woman would want to go back to that kind of second-class citizenship.

@Lana hello, this is an important post and I am wondering what country or state or other that you are posting about?

@Lana I was sitting in my local a few weeks ago drunkenly engaging a drive-by trumper, and he mentioned how much things had changed for the worse here. Me: yeah, it used to be much better here; when we moved here my mom couldn’t have a credit card. Him: uuuhhh?

@Lana my mother in law still won’t rent with Hertz because they wouldn’t give her a car without her husband there. She holds grudges.

@Lana Back in the late 70s, I was working at USPS, where there was a no-layoff clause in the employment contract. I purchased a house and a car, with good payment record, good credit score. But as a single female, I was denied credit card applications - again and again. This being AFTER the law you reference from 50 years ago.

@Lana I’m 49. I remember when it happened to my mother. She went to open a bank account with the bank she & my father already used. They turned her away bc they wouldn’t set it up without her husband being there.

@Lana I remember those days. I worked with 2 ladies who were probably 60 in 1979. They worked full time at Boeing, but the money all went in one account and the husband wrote the checks and paid the bills. They had no idea about finances at all.

@Lana In a well known Spanish fiction, Velvet, which played in the 50s (therefore, in Fascist Spain) a woman inherits a department store and runs it, which would have been impossible in that time and place.

Is there a word for the act of cleaning up the nastier bits of history for the sake of creating happy melodramatic fiction stories?

@Lana that is usa?

@Lana my sister and her (then) fiancee bought a house. She worked at a bank, was the one with the higher income.She couldn't get the mortgage (from her own employer) on her income alone, because it only counted for 5 years "because woman". 1989, Netherlands