We couldn't get a home mortgage in our own name. You had to be married for a credit card or a home loan.
We hear that women hold up half the sky, but we have yet to see women hold half the power. This blog is by a feminist who is making a film on the women's liberation movement.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Think about what life would be like without the Women's Liberation Movement
Women would be looking for jobs in the "female help wanted" sections of the classified ads in newspapers. We would be told routinely that we couldn't get into a college we had applied for because they had already accepted enough women for that class. We couldn't get a credit card in our own name.
We couldn't get a home mortgage in our own name. You had to be married for a credit card or a home loan.
We couldn't get a home mortgage in our own name. You had to be married for a credit card or a home loan.
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