'I had to have a male cosigner just for a checking account pre-1974.'
Older Adults Are Recalling What American Life Was Like Before The Expansion Of Women's Rights, And We Are Not Going Backsome secrets and stories that show just how much things have changed in a few decades. Here are their stories:"This is about my mom, but I witnessed it in the '70s. My mom made enough to buy a house. She saved up and had plenty for a deposit. But no bank would give her a loan.
"When I was growing up in the 1970s, there were a LOT of women who'd been left high and dry by husbands who abandoned them or died. They had no recourse to get child support, particularly if they had not been married, had little or no work history because they had been 'lowly housewives,' and in some cases, didn't even know HOW to pay bills because their husbands had controlled everything and wouldn't let them see their finances.
Discrimination in credit wasn't prohibited by law until 1974, but as a single woman, I obtained a credit card in my name before that, probably in 1970." "My mother was an MD in that time when not many women were. For her entire school period, college, medical school, residency, and early hospital jobs, all she heard was, 'When are you going to stop this nonsense and get married and have a family?' She got married at 27 and was at that point considered a desperate old maid. She married another MD because she said no other man who wasn't would have her.
"I had three friends who had back alley abortions in the '60s. One was a friend whose family was wealthy, so she flew to Puerto Rico to have it there. That was pretty common for folks with money at that time. The second one also had money and got a Park Avenue doctor's number. He did discreet abortions on the side for wealthy clients. The third one was my closest friend. She had no money, and hers was a horror show of an abortion. I went with her uptown to get it from god knows who.
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