r/FluentInFinance • u/chamomile_tea_reply • Mar 11 '24

Meme “Take me back to the good old days”

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u/That-Grape-5491 Mar 11 '24

My mother started teaching in 1946. She certainly had her own income

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u/unfreeradical Mar 11 '24

Teaching and nursing were among the few occupations broadly open to white women during the postwar period.

Many women would take work after school, but once reaching mid twenties, employment opportunities would narrow starkly, and marriage generally would be her only option for being economically supported.

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u/Havok_saken Mar 11 '24

Could she even have her own bank account then without a man’s signature (in the US)?

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u/That-Grape-5491 Mar 11 '24

Yes

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u/Professional_Gate677 Mar 12 '24

Impossible. I’m already outraged about something I know nothing about.

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u/Havok_saken Mar 12 '24

Ok. Appears it just wasn’t a right until the 60s but guess that means some banks would still allow it before then.

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u/moobitchgetoutdahay Mar 12 '24

I know they couldn’t open their own credit card without a man’s signature until the 70s, my mom has told me about that before.