5 things women couldn't do in the 60s

[Spoonman]

5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s - CNN.com

1. Get a credit card: In the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman; even if she was married, her husband was required to cosign. As recently as the 1970s, credit cards in many cases were issued with only a husband's signature. It was not until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that it became illegal to refuse a credit card to a woman based on her gender.

2. Serve on a jury: The main reason women were kept out of jury pools was that they were considered the center of the home, which was their primary responsibility as caregivers. They were also thought to be too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses. In 1961, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Florida law that exempted women from serving on juries. It wasn't until 1973 that women could serve on juries in all 50 states

3. Go on the birth control pill: Issues like reproductive freedom and a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children were only just beginning to be openly discussed in the 1960s. In 1957, the FDA approved of the birth control pill but only for "severe menstrual distress." In 1960, the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive. Even so, the pill was illegal in some states and could be prescribed only to married women for purposes of family planning

4. Get an Ivy League education:

Yale and Princeton didn't accept female students until 1969. Harvard didn't admit women until 1977


5. Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions. When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was going through Congress, an amendment made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender as well as race. When the amendment was not taken seriously regarding women in the workplace, the National Organization of Women was founded to enforce full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men.

you left out kill babies


wasn't that a conservative congress that put through the civil rights act?

Abortion has been a hot topic since the ancient Greeks, nothing new...

then again the greeks didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing a baby

 

[Moonglow]

you left out kill babies


wasn't that a conservative congress that put through the civil rights act?

Abortion has been a hot topic since the ancient Greeks, nothing new...

then again the greeks didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing a baby

yes they did, and the other hot topic was killing the child after birth by smashing their heads against stone walls or a toss of a cliff...By not making laws against infanticide or abortion they allowed it to happen...

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Why the debate about what the world was like 50 years ago?

Y'all are bunch of old farts.

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Without knowing where you've been, you can't figure out where you are.

 

[Mr Natural]

If the GOP has their way, they would like to see us devolve back to the 50's.

They sure as hell wouldn't like the tax rates of the '50s.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Why the debate about what the world was like 50 years ago?

Y'all are bunch of old farts.

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Without knowing where you've been, you can't figure out where you are.

The ignorance we see here is a real indication that we can never let up the fight to keep our rights.

If we turn our backs, the right would cheerfully take every right we have.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Abortion has been a hot topic since the ancient Greeks, nothing new...

then again the greeks didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing a baby

yes they did, and the other hot topic was killing the child after birth by smashing their heads against stone walls or a toss of a cliff...By not making laws against infanticide or abortion they allowed it to happen...

Abortion has been around as long as human reproduction. There has never been a time when people were not trying to figure out a way not to get pregnant or give birth.

 

[percysunshine]

Why the debate about what the world was like 50 years ago?

Y'all are bunch of old farts.

.

Without knowing where you've been, you can't figure out where you are.

The ignorance we see here is a real indication that we can never let up the fight to keep our rights.

If we turn our backs, the right would cheerfully take every right we have.

So you like things the way they are, and would fight against any progressive change.


Did we just enter the Twilight Zone?

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[mamooth]

1. Get a credit card:

An interesting twist was that a woman could use most any man's credit card just by saying "it's my husband's".

Even around 1998, I was out with a woman friend, needed to buy some stuff, she said "just give me your card, I'll get it.". "No way! They won't let you do that!" says I. "Way", says she, "Watch me". And as I stood out of sight, she did, paying for the purchase with my card (which the clerk had to run through the carbon-paper swiping machine) and never being questioned about it.

I'm hoping that wouldn't be allowed now, but I'm not sure.

 

[peach174]

5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s - CNN.com

1. Get a credit card: In the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman; even if she was married, her husband was required to cosign. As recently as the 1970s, credit cards in many cases were issued with only a husband's signature. It was not until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that it became illegal to refuse a credit card to a woman based on her gender.

2. Serve on a jury: The main reason women were kept out of jury pools was that they were considered the center of the home, which was their primary responsibility as caregivers. They were also thought to be too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses. In 1961, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Florida law that exempted women from serving on juries. It wasn't until 1973 that women could serve on juries in all 50 states

3. Go on the birth control pill: Issues like reproductive freedom and a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children were only just beginning to be openly discussed in the 1960s. In 1957, the FDA approved of the birth control pill but only for "severe menstrual distress." In 1960, the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive. Even so, the pill was illegal in some states and could be prescribed only to married women for purposes of family planning

4. Get an Ivy League education:

Yale and Princeton didn't accept female students until 1969. Harvard didn't admit women until 1977


5. Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions. When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was going through Congress, an amendment made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender as well as race. When the amendment was not taken seriously regarding women in the workplace, the National Organization of Women was founded to enforce full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men.

Women were going to Yale 144 years ago.
Women at Yale | Women at Yale
It’s been 40 years since the coeducation of Yale College and 140 years since women first took their places as students in the graduate and professional schools, beginning with the School of Art in 1869.
Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale, which will be held March 26-28, 2010.

theseneca
Ten years later Harvard accepted women in 1879.
1879
The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women is founded, with the aim of providing women with an education equal to that at Harvard. The first president is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. To ensure that classes are of the highest caliber, all lectures are given by Harvard faculty. The school is quickly nicknamed "The Harvard Annex."


The first women juror;
The First Woman Juror in America
The First Woman Juror in America: Laramie’s Eliza Stewart
By Phil Roberts
Laramie women made history in March of 1870 when five of them became the first women in the world to serve on a jury. The first name drawn for jury duty that spring, less than six months after Wyoming’s first territorial legislature granted women equal political rights, was Eliza Stewart, a Laramie schoolteacher

 

[Quantum Windbag]

5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s - CNN.com

1. Get a credit card: In the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman; even if she was married, her husband was required to cosign. As recently as the 1970s, credit cards in many cases were issued with only a husband's signature. It was not until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that it became illegal to refuse a credit card to a woman based on her gender.

2. Serve on a jury: The main reason women were kept out of jury pools was that they were considered the center of the home, which was their primary responsibility as caregivers. They were also thought to be too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses. In 1961, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Florida law that exempted women from serving on juries. It wasn't until 1973 that women could serve on juries in all 50 states

3. Go on the birth control pill: Issues like reproductive freedom and a woman's right to decide when and whether to have children were only just beginning to be openly discussed in the 1960s. In 1957, the FDA approved of the birth control pill but only for "severe menstrual distress." In 1960, the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive. Even so, the pill was illegal in some states and could be prescribed only to married women for purposes of family planning

4. Get an Ivy League education:

Yale and Princeton didn't accept female students until 1969. Harvard didn't admit women until 1977


5. Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions. When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was going through Congress, an amendment made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender as well as race. When the amendment was not taken seriously regarding women in the workplace, the National Organization of Women was founded to enforce full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men.

1. Funny thing, the fact that banks could do something does not mean they always did it. On top of that, stores never had a problem issuing cards to women. I guess that makes this an outright lie.
2. Another outright lie. By the end of the 1960s every single state allowed women on juries. In fact, California allowed women on juries since the 1940s. H-Net Reviews
3. So they couldn't go on birth control, except they actually could.
4. Funny, Harvard graduated 12 women from medical school in 1949. Is it possible that this is another lie? Yes.
5. I won't bother to debunk this claim, I think I made my point.

This entire thread is based on lies, just like everything else about the war on women.

Actually, you didn't. You point out some unsubstantiated outliers that do nothing to disprove the fact that prior to the women's movement, women were restricted to certain roles in our society

The claim was that women were completely unable to do any of those things during the entire fucking decade. All I need is a single exception to prove any of those wrong, and the claim that women were unable to serve on a jury during that decade is completely wrong. Every single state allowed women to serve on juries by 1969. That is not an outlier, despite your ignorance on what the word means.

 

[Moonglow]

1. Get a credit card:

An interesting twist was that a woman could use most any man's credit card just by saying "it's my husband's".

Even around 1998, I was out with a woman friend, needed to buy some stuff, she said "just give me your card, I'll get it.". "No way! They won't let you do that!" says I. "Way", says she, "Watch me". And as I stood out of sight, she did, paying for the purchase with my card (which the clerk had to run through the carbon-paper swiping machine) and never being questioned about it.

I'm hoping that wouldn't be allowed now, but I'm not sure.

I use my wifes debit and credit cards with no problemo...but then again. I pay for the play....

 

[Spoonman]

Abortion has been a hot topic since the ancient Greeks, nothing new...

then again the greeks didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing a baby

yes they did, and the other hot topic was killing the child after birth by smashing their heads against stone walls or a toss of a cliff...By not making laws against infanticide or abortion they allowed it to happen...

got it, so like I said, they didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing babies.

in addition, unlike todays democrats, they weren't legislation happy douchebags who perpetuated government overreach and felt the need to control every aspect of peoples lives.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The claim was that women were completely unable to do any of those things during the entire fucking decade.

Here we go again.

That's not what it said.

Read it again.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

then again the greeks didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing a baby

yes they did, and the other hot topic was killing the child after birth by smashing their heads against stone walls or a toss of a cliff...By not making laws against infanticide or abortion they allowed it to happen...

got it, so like I said, they didn't legalize murder and redefine when life starts so people could feel good about killing babies.

in addition, unlike todays democrats, they weren't legislation happy douchebags who perpetuated government overreach and felt the need to control every aspect of peoples lives.

Why do the nutters try to turn every single thread into their rant against basic human rights?

If you want to do this whine again, go start a new thread.

 

[whitehall]

Not every young (unmarried) person had credit cards in the 60's. It's a myth that young independent women were not trusted by banks but some lefties need to hang on to myths. Women were highly sought after as jurors in certain cases just as young men were picked in some cases and ethnic origin was an issue. It's another myth. Actually the notorious "pill" was a boon to liberal men who didn't have to worry about child support. Another issue in the 60's was that women who joined the Military didn't get to lose arms and legs in combat. Democrats corrected that problem.

 

[Jarlaxle]

5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s - CNN.com


2. Serve on a jury: The main reason women were kept out of jury pools was that they were considered the center of the home, which was their primary responsibility as caregivers. They were also thought to be too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses. In 1961, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Florida law that exempted women from serving on juries. It wasn't until 1973 that women could serve on juries in all 50 states.

Wait...that's a BAD thing? Hell, I wish I did not have the "right" to get called for jury duty!

 

[Jarlaxle]

1. Get a credit card: In the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman; even if she was married, her husband was required to cosign. As recently as the 1970s, credit cards in many cases were issued with only a husband's signature. It was not until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that it became illegal to refuse a credit card to a woman based on her gender.

This one needs to go back in place, but with a twist. You ever see a women shop! Ouch!

In reality you can thank the credit bureaus for this change. Basically the credit bureaus treat everyone the same regardless of race, religion or gender!
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A woman might have had a problem getting a credit card issued by a bank, but she was certainly able to get a credit card issued by a department store. I remember my mom having one of those, even though she did not have a job other than staying home and taking care of my dad and me.
There is a museum that has an exhibit of credit cards that were issued by department stores. Many of the cards that they display were issued to women. See The Department Store Museum: Charge Cards

My grandmother had a couple of those...she also had a Shell gas card since 1968! (Her husband died around 1960.)

 

[Jarlaxle]

I had to witness first hand the censorship and tyrant environments of men towards women during the 1960's. I knew of little old ladies that were never even allowed to drive a car, much less keep on operating after the man died...and kids were nothing more than free laborers and whipping posts...

And my grandmother had a car pretty much from a year after she got married until this very day. (Except during WW2, for obvious reasons.) In fact...she often had a nicer car than the utilitarian sedan my grandfather drove. (Offhand, she loved her Karmann Ghia.)

She needed it, too...my grandfather often had things to do, so he was GLAD she could make the 45-minute drive to the skeet range herself.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Historically, women couldn't own property and marriage was the only way they could have a home and belongings. Well, in Christian countries anyway. Judaism's long treated men and women equally which is why many of the feminsists in the 60s were Jewish - it isn't coincidental.

 

[bodecea]

And just look around, things are so much better now aren't they?

Yes they are.