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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Other random weird fact: Women weren't allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.

You know that isn't true, right?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It's in your own article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The article says the 1974 law concerns credit applications, not bank accounts

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm going need a 90 minute documentary and a giant bowl of popcorn to absorb all this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Except it was effectively true,

Only in the same way it was true that men couldn't vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn't have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't know what to tell you. At least one of my grandmothers needed their husband's signature to open a bank account in the 60's, and it wasn't because she didn't have assets in her name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Any chance you have a link to a reputable source, or a site anyone else besides you has heard of?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not without their husband's permission. That is to say, they were allowed as long as their husband was happy with their wifely performance.