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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, women just have more options. [b]Remember it wasn’t until the 70s that a woman could even open a bank account in her own name. [/b]Men used to have us financially, emotionally, socially, and physically trapped.[/quote]

This was true in the United States or in Saudi Arabia?! WTH

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Could a single working woman open a bank account? What would she do with her money? Or was it just married women that had to have their husbands name on the account?[/quote]

I believe it would have to be under her father’s name in that case. [/quote]

No -- everyone stop this.  Women could open bank acounts in their name since the 1800s.  Was there discrimination (some banks would not open for some)  --- yes -- the law in the 1970s ended that.  But there were banks all over the country that opened accounts in women's names only.

https://femmefrugality.com/myth-busting-womens-banking/
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That's your source? Did you even read that poorly written, poorly documented article. No one has said women weren't allowed to open bank accounts. There were a few banks that would allow them to do so independently but the majority of banks would not unless her DH agreed.  My widowed grandmother experienced this in 1968. My uncle, her son, had to approve it.

The same uncle, BTW, married my aunt right after the Supreme Court ruled women didn’t have to take their DH's surnames. They hyphenated their kids' surnames. When my first kid was born in VA in 2003, we couldn't hyphenate his last name. We had to file a name change request a few years later so he'd have the same last name as his siblings.

From Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/when-could-women-open-a-bank-account/#:~:text=Technically%2C%20women%20won%20the%20right,refused%20service%20by%20financial%20institutions.
[i]It wasn’t until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed, that women in the U.S. were granted the right to open a bank account on their own.

Technically, women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused to let women do so without a signature from their husbands. This meant men still held control over women’s access to banking services, and unmarried women were often refused service by financial institutions.[/i][/quote]

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