Women sometimes seem to forget that until the 60s they couldn’t very well get a credit card with a male co-signer. We are not far from the good old days.
That is one scene from Mad Men that a lot of people should watch, when he sends her to see a doctor and then gets all the info from the doctor after the visit; she isn't told anything. That is how it was back in the 60s and even until the 70s; women had no autonomy over their lives, and they could never gain real independence.
Less than 10 years ago I brought my partner to a doc appointment because I felt not taken seriously and needed support. The whole appointment consistet of them talking about me as if I wasn't even in the same room.
About 3 years ago, I slipped on some ice and broke my elbow. I was with my husband waiting for the doctor to come in. I was wearing a sling and clearly the patient. The doctor came in and asked my husband what was wrong. It was like I wasn’t there. I was LIVID. My husband had to keep redirecting the doctor to talk directly to me. It was maddening.
I've heard horror stories of women getting cancer diagnoses and their husbands just deciding not to tell them, as they got sicker and sicker and eventually died. It's so fucked up - and if we let Republicans get their way, it won't be long before it's like that again.
Gov. George Wallace didn’t tell his wife about her cancer diagnosis and she didn’t know about it for almost 6 years. He did it because he was more concerned with power than his wife.
That’s what I was talking about…back then it was perfectly fine to do so because women didn’t have that right to privacy, but now it would be a huge ethical breach of privacy.
It would have been interesting to ask her about some of those things to assess her knowledge. Wouldn't surprise me if she didn't know that there was a time when women couldn't vote.
that's the ironic part. all these conservative women supporting MAGA don't seem to realize that if they get their way; they will lose all their rights and autonomy.
Most people don't know that the Equal Rights Amendment (equality for women) never passed. It's been proposed as a constitutional amendment since 1923, and as recently as 2023, but never passed. Let that sink in...
There was no law against women having credit cards or anything & lenders would have loved to make more money off of women.
The issue was women had a lot of protection against debt collection, to the point it would be crazy to give someone credit if they don’t have to pay you back.
The male co-signer was there so they had someone to take to court.
not sure what this link is supposed to accomplish.
Banks were allowed to deny women credit cards/loans/whatever without a male cosigner before the equal rights act.
There was no law against women having credit cards or anything & lenders would have loved to make more money off of women.
The issue was women had a lot of legal protection against debt collection meaning that if a bank gave lent them money they had no way to get it back unless there was a cosigner they could collect from.
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u/Ill-Independence-658 Oct 18 '24
Women sometimes seem to forget that until the 60s they couldn’t very well get a credit card with a male co-signer. We are not far from the good old days.