Things a women couldn't do in 1971 - Republican yearn for the good Ole Days

[packman]

The claim: In 1971, women could not do these nine things.

It wasn’t that long ago a woman couldn’t get a credit card in her own name, or serve on a jury, or get an Ivy League education.

In fact, a viral Facebook post lists nine things a woman could not do in the United States in 1971. The post, made by Julia Siergiey Juraez, who said she copied and pasted it from someone else, has been shared more than 105,000 times.

Here is the list of "nine things a woman couldn’t do in 1971" in the post:

Get a credit card in her own name.
Be guaranteed that they would not get fired for getting pregnant.
Serve on a jury.
Fight on the front lines.
Get an Ivy League education.
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment.
Decide not to have sex with their husband.
Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man.
Take the birth control pill

Explaining all this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/28/fact-check-9-things-women-couldnt-do-1971-mostly-right/3677101001/

[LakeArenal]

1. In 1972 my then boyfriend ( now Mr Lake) could not put his name on our mailbox

I couldn’t get rental insurance if I was living with a boy. He couldn’t get mail because his name wasn’t on the mailbox.

Edit: other friends had to go to NYC to get an abortion.

[in2herbs]

2. It's still discriminatory. Example: I had a Citi Freedom credit card in my name for

more than a decade. Husband also had card in his name with same number. When he died last year I called to close his card. They told me they couldn't do that, they'd have to close his and my card and issue me a new one. But before issuing me a new one I would have to reapply and they'd have to do a credit check on me to see if I qualify. I told them to F** off and close both accounts.

I have two other credit cards in my name only and both with over a $20,000.00 credit line so I don't need their card or their BS.

[moonscape]

3. Could this be a general policy

regardless of gender, i.e. joint vs individual acct?

[in2herbs]

5. I don't know. But I did ask the rep if it was me who had died and not H would they

make him reapply and they said no.

[milestogo]

4. I wonder if they will try to roll back Title 9

which has made a huge difference for girls and women's success in sports.

I was in high school when it was passed (1973) and there weren't many competitive options for girls. The success of women in sports since then is a great story that they will probably try to undo.

[crazylikafox]

6. I graduated from college in '71

All of above are true except I could take a birth control pill. But only because I was married.

[SheltieLover]

7. Kicking for visibility

[MuseRider]

8. I graduated from High School that year.

I could not even have a checking account. I had to have my fathers name on the account too and they sent the statements to him. My mother was not allowed her own account because she could use his, not as a cosigner but as his wife (property), she signed his name on the dotted line.

[pidge]

9. A lot of baloney...I had a credit card and took the birth control pill ...I also had

a woman friend who was a Cornell grad.



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[kiranon]

10. My husband died in 1971 and I could not get a credit card

I was able to get a credit card because a bank VP lived down the block and he arranged it for me. I was teaching school but that wasn't good enough for a woman to get a credit card in her name. Some states made it illegal to get birth control pills unless they were married which I wasn't since I was a widow. I knew people who had botched abortions and one who tried to kill her newborn after delivering the baby herself in a dorm bathroom. I applied for a job with the government and scored very high on the civil service entrance exam and had an interview in another state. The interviewers said I was too pretty and would just get married again. I don't know about Cornell but many universities discriminated against women and minorities. I have lived on the East and West Coasts and found much less discrimination in the West.

[packman]

11. Always an exception to the rule - article is about the GENERAL climate regarding

what a women in that time period could expect - again, in general. My wife in the 70's couldn't get a car loan nor bank account without my signing even thou she had a job making good $.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Couldn't get a mortgage without a male co-signer. Couldn't join ROTC. Wasn't admitted to

post grad programs, like vet school, using same criteria as that used for males.