Without looking it up, do you know which year in the UK (or US) women were allowed to get a bank account in their own name?
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Without looking it up, do you know which year in the UK (or US) women were allowed to get a bank account in their own name?
A lot of people guessed correctly. 74 US and 75 UK.
That's incredible if you take a second to think about it.
You can't start a business, get proper employment, get a mortgage, even get a loan.
The wheels of the economy are not available for you because you lack the configuration of genitals.
This is not even history, it's practically yesterday.
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@selzero
But it took until President Reagan signed the Women's Business Ownership Act into law (one, perhaps the only, good thing you can attribute to him) in 1988, for a woman to be allowed to get a business loan without a man. -
@selzero
That's sounds like it happened around the same time that it became illegal (in UK) to sack a woman for getting married. It was often standard practise that companies (and public institutions) would expect or indeed force woman to leave their employment if they got married.