“People Now Do Not Realize What It Was Like Then”: Tumblr User Lists What Things Weren’t Legal For Women In The 1960s
We have come a long way since the dark times of pre-first-wave feminism when society was wondering “Hmmm, are women maybe human beings?” From 1848 to 1920, 70 whole years, women fought for the right to vote, but it was still a long way to go until women were taken as equals in the broadest, human sense.
Hence, second-wave feminism marked a fight for a wide range of issues, from the workplace, de facto inequalities, family and sexuality, reproductive rights, and many more. In 1949, when the French philosopher Simone De Beauvoir released her book “The Second Sex,” it further fueled the feminist consciousness and paved the way to the more equal society we live in today.
But since there’s still a lot of room for improving the future of women’s and traditionally marginalized groups’ rights, it’s worth reflecting on the past. Especially when the term is often misused or viewed with distrust and criticism these past decades.
So this time, we will be looking into an illuminating thread by one Tumblr user who listed the things that women of the 1960s legally couldn’t do. It does feel a little shocking, to say the least, and shows just how thankful we have to be to feminism and its brave fighters who turned this world around.
A Tumblr user has recently shared a somewhat shocking list of things that women in the 1960s weren’t legally allowed to do
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Another person pointed out that these things were in living memory and emphasized the importance of feminism
In 1960, almost 40 percent of American women were in the workforce. They made on average 60 percent less than men, had near to zero opportunity to advance, and were hardly represented in their professions. Most women worked in “pink collar” jobs as teachers, secretaries, and nurses. Up until the 1960s, newspapers even had separate job listings for men and women, and the same job listing indicated a smaller wage for a woman worker.
But three years later, in 1963, congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which required employers to pay men and women the same wage for equivalent work. A year later, another dramatic change happened with the congress passing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Essentially, it banned discrimination on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, or gender and paved way to file a lawsuit against discrimination in the workplace.
As a result, more and more jobs became available to women. By 1970, more than 43 percent of women were in the workforce, and it was just the beginning.In 1969, elite all-male colleges like Princeton and Yale began admitting women students.
This woman who grew up in the 1960s also shared what life was like for her being born a girl, and it’s disturbing
In the midst of the feminist upheaval of the ’60s, many new rulings came to existence. For example, in 1965, the Supreme Court ruled that earlier law against birth control violated the right to marital privacy. Many women of the time felt like they were free to take charge of their own bodies, as the federal government approved contraceptives, the pill in particular, in 1960.
Others reminded us all to never forget the history
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Since this was a comment elsewhere: GOP stands for Grand Old Party, a moniker given to the Republican (far-right/conservative) Party in the US. The Dems are Democrats, or Democratic Party. RINO is "Republican In Name Only", or a conservative who dislikes Trumpism. Currently, GOP should stand for "Gross Old Profiteers", IMO, but that's me, and I await downvotes with glee:-)
I've just finished reading this and now I want to punch someone in the face. Do you Panda's realize there are women out there who actually want the GOP to set us back because these women think they are good wives and/or christian wives or other bullsh!t. I'm 54 and when, in the 80's and 90's I worked for this huge international company and landed a job in computer and software Helpdesk. How many times men asked me why? ....because it was not a lady like thing. And now I see a reverse of things even I had to argue for, and I had it relatively easy. So i'm going to chop some wood thank you very much.
I always ask them why they think typing on a computer is macho... i mean, programming and being a secretary both involve typing... so I fail to see why one is stereotypically male and vice versa. It's bizarre.
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Please add which country this applies to. In many countries, women still can't do some of these things and in some other countries, they could already do them prior to the 1960ies.
When I was a little girl in the 1960's, girls were taught that they could be teachers but never a principal, a nurse but never a doctor, and a stewardess but never a pilot.
I have a friend who is a pilot who has a great story about this. She was walking across the apron in a large coat to HER plane and security stopped her and said "air hostesses can board later". She pulled the coat off with a flourish revealing the captain's uniform. Beautiful.
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Another big one--- a husband could commit his wife to a mental institution, just for disagreeing with him or not behaving like a "woman". This happened as late as the 70's. Also, female minors who committed misdemeanors or ran away from home would be deemed deviant and sent to juvenile facilities, while boys who did the same or worse would be sent home. I spent two years in these hell holes in the early 80's, and my appearance was always an issue. I did not conform to the feminine ideal. Girls were also forced to have a gyno exam. Felt like rape every time. If you refused, you went into solitary. Just thinking about it fills me with rage.
And you have every right to be enraged. This is just terrible!
Load More Replies... In Australia in the 70's my single parent Mum had to pretend to be married to rent a flat. Also before she left my physically abusive father she got a visit from the government to tell her she was better off staying with him. There was no support for women in the 70's.
Tracy, my parents helped a woman in Aus. They found out her husband was beating the *$^& out of her and we had a small bungalow on our property. They told her to live with us. One night her drunk husband was trying to drag her out of the bungalow and dad got so pissed off he grabbed my brand new bike and hit him on the head with it. The police came and he never bothered her again. It's one of many stories about women needing help and not getting it from the authorities and governments. I'm glad your mum got away. Bless you.
Load More Replies... In 1978 I was pregnant with my first child. I was going to job interviews because I couldn't continue in my current job, due to heavy lifting. One man who was interviewing me leaned toward me, lowered his voice and said "I know I'm not supposed to ask, but are you pregnant?" I looked him straight in the eye and said "No." and got up and left. If he knew he wasn't supposed to ask, why did he ask? I finally found a job, and when they realized I was pregnant they were upset about it. But they couldn't fire me based on that because of the new law.
THANK YOU RBG! She changed the banking laws in the US to allow women the rights to ownership of bank accounts and financial instruments without permission of their husbands/fathers.
When my parents were married but before us kids, my mum had problems getting a chequebook/account. Told by the bank she could just use her husband's couldn't she? This is late 70s early 80s. And in response to some comments here let me clarify: NZ, not USA. Yes, the same NZ who was first to give women the vote. Sexism was and still is rampant, everywhere.
this! there are a few people I've met who say that "sexism is a lie because women can vote." "The pay gap exists because women are too emotional to do work as well as men." and some blatant sexism: "You must have cheated on the math test, a girl can't score that high!" the list goes on...
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My mother was a nursing student in the 1960s in Washington D.C.- they indeed had to be unmarried- but the combination of young and impressionable nursing students, predatory male doctors and hospital staff, and the lack of accessible birth control meant that when the inevitable “accidents” happened, the girls actually gave each other illegal abortions. It was definitely a thing that stuck with me. That and the bone-deep fear that RNs from that era had for Richard Speck. My mother wouldn’t flinch at the goriest of traumas, but he scared the s**t out of her.
Yes, my very dear friend is a retired nurse, she used to be asked to perform them all the time, and more than once had women arrive with the coat hanger they'd use to perforate their own uterus.
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What is GOP? Please don't use country specific abbreviations without defining them at least once somewhere in the text.
On behalf of Americans, I apologize. GOP is shorthand for Grand Old Party, a moniker applied to the Republican (far-right these days) Party of the United States of America. We use it so often that most people here probably don't even know what the GOP stands for other than "gross old profiteers".... (That's my version of it!)...
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The radical right won't defeat feminism, but complacency could. As a millennial it's easy to assume that progress is the natural order of things. It isn't. Precedents can be challenged, laws can be repealed, consensuses can be undone. What my generation hold as certainties are nothing of the sort. My generation needs to step up, and quickly. Because within the next decade people born in the 80s and 90s are going to be actually running things.
I definitely agree with this. I remember the feeling in the 90s was that everything was getting better and it was only a matter of time before men and women were equal. And society kind of took its watchful eye off the issue and we didn't hear about feminism for 10-15 years. Then suddenly in the 2010s people realised things had not got inevitably better, in fact in many areas society was backsliding. So even if from time to time there is some reactionary backlash against feminism, it is better than ignoring the issue.
Load More Replies... When I bought my first new car in the mid 70s, the bank wanted a male consigner. I told them I did not have a husband, my father passed away and no brother. Then they asked for my boss or a religious leader as a co-signer. Finally, they approved my $6K loan all by myself. I payed off a 4 year loan in 2 years. Never had a cosigner, never will!
I'm a female gamer and it's still a thing to get guys proclaiming that women and girls can't be serious gamers or game creators. It's because women weren't allowed to learn about computers to begin with, so anything on a screen was for boys and men. And this idea has been kept around for decades. I'm so glad we're finally in a place where me playing games as an adult isn't considered weird by most people.
Another thing that was illegal for women until the 1970s in the USA was to use their maiden name after getting divorced. Even if it was their husband who caused the breakup of the marriage, a woman had to continue using her husband's last name. I know this because my own mother was one of only two women who, in 1972/3, challenged this law and brought her case to the state supreme court. And won. Because my mother fought to change her name back to her previous name now all women are free to do so......and to use any name we want to, in fact.
I was once hired to be the Assistant Technical Director/Master Carpenter for a theatre (in the US). I was also asked "Why I was taking a job away from a man." i was 27. It was 2004. I'm now (2021) the first female BIPOC Director of Theatre at my school (previously only held by white men - still in the US). The school has been around since the mid-1800s. And I was still asked why I'm taking a job from a man (hint: 25+ years of professional experience and 4 graduate degrees in my field). A lot of this -ish still exists...
Conservatives in the US seem to want the 'advertising' version of history. Think of Coca-Cola, or cigarette advertising. It's a false nostalgia for a version of the world that never really existed. It lives on in the selective memory of the people who decidedly received the "long end of the stick."
I'm 58, I've been a computer programmer since the mid 1980's. I remember waiting for one interview right out of school. I was chatting with the receptionist, she asked what I did. I told her, and her reply was "and all that comes out of your pretty head?". The guy interviewing me was concerned that since I would be the only woman on his staff, the "guys" would either be uncomfortable around me and not be able to be themselves, or they would be themselves and I would be uncomfortable. Yep, he said that outright. Funny, I didn't take that job...
I knew a jackass who owned a plumbing company who told me he hired a female apprentice once, and that she was a good worker, but because the men couldn't act right and do their jobs, he let her go. Seriously, wtf.
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You have to realize that at no point in history, literally anywhere, was the life of a woman of equal value as the life of a man. Not even today. Not really, just barely.
I remember when I was first married and had a root canal done. The oral surgeon told me it had a 60/40% chance of working. Guess what it didn’t, I went back & told him it was even worse than before the procedure and he gave me pain meds and sent me home. Four days later and no relief. I go back & tell him that I want him to pull my tooth. He refuses because I “don’t understand how pain works”. I come back 2 hrs later this time with my husband who refuses to leave until Dr sees me again. We go back and oral surgeon completely ignores me; instead he asks my husband what he wants him to do. My husband said “listen to her and pull her #%*# tooth. That was 1991.
Also, often the only way for a woman to be able to leave home and get a house was to get married as women couldn't get mortgages (my mum couldn't in the 60's in uk).
This has to be one of those things people think of when they are referring to the ‚good old times‘, right? Right?
I'M... VERY... ANGRY... And so many Trump supporters want to bring us right back there.
I'm 54, old enough to remember these absurd laws in Canada and Québec. Younger women need to be educated on this.
The GOP (Republicans) in the US want to return to the '50s...the 1850's that is.
I remember in high school being one of the few guys marching along women for equal rights (1975/76). I might have been a stupid, immature idiot, but I knew enough that what these women were protesting about was right and just. It pains me to see so many people, some women included, pining for "the good old days". They were "old days", but not "good" by any stretch of the imagination.
In The Netherlands in the 60ties woman couldn't build a pension. That's why my divorced mother doesn't have a full pension right know.
You can always tell something is about the US because they never say it's the US. Anyone else would say, "What it was like in 1960s France" or wherever. People in the US never do it.
I remember being 12 in 1976. Our neighbour was in an abusive relationship. She had 5 kids under 10. Hubby.would not let her take birth control and she could not get it on her own. She got pregnant again and wanted an abortion. He would not sign the papers. She threw herself down the stairs in desperation to abort.
I owned the first woman owned Retail computer business in South Carolina before I was 21. someone told me that I was the only one in the NC,SC,GA areas. 1988 y'all. The reason I opened it? I couldn't get a job in the market at all!!! My business built custom DOS systems and later Windows systems. My daughter came home crying because her kindergarten teacher accused her of lying when my daughter proudly shared during show and tell that her mommy built computers for sale. I gave her an old motherboard to show and told her that it was the thing that you had to start with. I was so pissed I went to the teacher and having scheduled the time with the principal, built a working unit in 15 minutes. (I preloaded the software) . Turd of a teacher did apologize but with little grace.
Women could be forcibly admitted to psych hospital for crying after marital violence. Hysterics, you know. Tsk tsk. In that hospital, the woman could be stripped naked, subject to electroshock without anesthesia, drugged against her will. Women also responsible for husband’s debt. Apply for a job? Women subject to lewd comments and jokes. If hired, women subject to advances, and worse, from boss. In school? Forget science, unless your family had money for college. Women got the Two Choice Plan:, secretarial or homemaking. Either way, women had to be perfectly and discretely dressed and coifed. All this in 1960s.
This sounds like the US. I wish there were articles comparing it with the rest of the developed world.
Oh god I remember that ford thing when a woman was questioned about her hormones. Men did not believe they also had hormones and the only reason why some women felt "hormonal" during a period was bc of a surge in testosterone which men have every single day if their lives. They could not understand they had the same frigging hormones as women and actually men have a harder time controlling their outbursts and anger bc of their normal hormones. I think a lot of men still don't know they have the same hormones as women in relation to how they feel.
"A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need." This hit home for me *finally* more than the previous many decades I've mildly agreed with feminists. My mother's life was hard (her mother forced her into a marriage at 14, she divorced him and married my dad + had 7 children), her mother's life was hard (7 children), my dad's mother's life was hard (13 children) and it was always taken for granted that they'd do ALL of the cooking, cleaning, constantly bear children, and leave school by 12 or 13. Still I was slow to comprehend that none of them had much choice in their life, that they were not treated as equals. I'm sure from the outside it appeared they 'had it all' 'home & family', I loved my parents, they seemed content, but I remember the unspoken longing in my mother's eyes.
Mom couldn't buy FURNITURE on consignment after a divorce. She offered 50% down, and owned her own business. Nope, in 1972 she needed a man to sign for financial stuff.
It looks like since the beginning of time we humans have treated each other so horribly. It still goes on to this day and age. I honestly don't know what it's going to take to get people to see that you don't treat your own kind like this? Every single human being on this planet is your kind, our ken, our people, our blood. Why do we treat each other as though we are not? I'll never understand it, and I don't ever want to understand it.
My mom dealt with the credit card thing right after the supreme court made it legal for a woman to get a card in her own name with no one else's approval. It was a department store card, and they declined it because, of course, she didnt have her husband's approval. My mom, a sweet lady of 70ish now, who wouldnt say boo to a goose, went in an absolute rampage and ultimately threatened to get every news station in the city down there for an interview with her and she would have the managers all the way up to the top explain exactly why she was being turned down illegally. She got her credit card. :)
Keep in mind this is not true in all places of the US, I grew up in this era also, and I had some discrimination and harassment, but not on this level. Many women were expected to work. I got on the pill in college, with a male doctor. I did have a teacher tell me I had to drop geometry, even though I aced algebra, because "girls didn't belong in geometry". (Turns out I have a problem with memorization. My driving instructor in high school insisted that all the girls in his classes had to learn how to change a tire, but my father wouldn't let me learn how to work on a car. That last thing backfired after I killed a car because I didn't know to check the oil, lol.
kezzamo74@gmail.com thank goodness we were more advanced in gay rights and women's rights in the UK officially in the late 1960s and unofficially in the late 50s wow, changed much faster!
I am starting to be annoyed with posts of 9gag being so US centric. Am I the only one non US person to be reading this??? Like hey people there are countries outside the US too.
I read a post from a young feminist one day and couldn't help laughing. She got angry when I commented on how easy it is for feminists these days, so I pointed out she wouldn't be in college, wouldn't get equal pay, etc etc. Maybe it's time to teach the young ones how hard we fought to get them the things they take for granted
Women don't even get equal pay in every country.. Plus etc etc is an exaggeration, definitely has come a long way but still hasen't fully ended, feminists are still needed.
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Not everything on this list is accurate. Please don't accept everything at face value---BP is well known for letting anyone at all write anything at all, and a great deal of it is nothing but garbage. This article is one of them. Just because a few things are somewhat accurate, don't believe that they all are. Please, use your own brains first!!
True, and now women think it's about makeup and frilly clothes. Nope it never was.
It's amazing what people will blindly accept as fact simply because they read/see/hear it on the internet.... but then that's exactly what the MAGAheads do, so I shouldn't be surprised that it shows up anywhere.
Now tell us which are the myths, so we can check what you say.
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Since this was a comment elsewhere: GOP stands for Grand Old Party, a moniker given to the Republican (far-right/conservative) Party in the US. The Dems are Democrats, or Democratic Party. RINO is "Republican In Name Only", or a conservative who dislikes Trumpism. Currently, GOP should stand for "Gross Old Profiteers", IMO, but that's me, and I await downvotes with glee:-)
I've just finished reading this and now I want to punch someone in the face. Do you Panda's realize there are women out there who actually want the GOP to set us back because these women think they are good wives and/or christian wives or other bullsh!t. I'm 54 and when, in the 80's and 90's I worked for this huge international company and landed a job in computer and software Helpdesk. How many times men asked me why? ....because it was not a lady like thing. And now I see a reverse of things even I had to argue for, and I had it relatively easy. So i'm going to chop some wood thank you very much.
I always ask them why they think typing on a computer is macho... i mean, programming and being a secretary both involve typing... so I fail to see why one is stereotypically male and vice versa. It's bizarre.
Load More Replies... Please add which country this applies to. In many countries, women still can't do some of these things and in some other countries, they could already do them prior to the 1960ies.
When I was a little girl in the 1960's, girls were taught that they could be teachers but never a principal, a nurse but never a doctor, and a stewardess but never a pilot.
I have a friend who is a pilot who has a great story about this. She was walking across the apron in a large coat to HER plane and security stopped her and said "air hostesses can board later". She pulled the coat off with a flourish revealing the captain's uniform. Beautiful.
Load More Replies... Another big one--- a husband could commit his wife to a mental institution, just for disagreeing with him or not behaving like a "woman". This happened as late as the 70's. Also, female minors who committed misdemeanors or ran away from home would be deemed deviant and sent to juvenile facilities, while boys who did the same or worse would be sent home. I spent two years in these hell holes in the early 80's, and my appearance was always an issue. I did not conform to the feminine ideal. Girls were also forced to have a gyno exam. Felt like rape every time. If you refused, you went into solitary. Just thinking about it fills me with rage.
And you have every right to be enraged. This is just terrible!
Load More Replies... In Australia in the 70's my single parent Mum had to pretend to be married to rent a flat. Also before she left my physically abusive father she got a visit from the government to tell her she was better off staying with him. There was no support for women in the 70's.
Tracy, my parents helped a woman in Aus. They found out her husband was beating the *$^& out of her and we had a small bungalow on our property. They told her to live with us. One night her drunk husband was trying to drag her out of the bungalow and dad got so pissed off he grabbed my brand new bike and hit him on the head with it. The police came and he never bothered her again. It's one of many stories about women needing help and not getting it from the authorities and governments. I'm glad your mum got away. Bless you.
Load More Replies... In 1978 I was pregnant with my first child. I was going to job interviews because I couldn't continue in my current job, due to heavy lifting. One man who was interviewing me leaned toward me, lowered his voice and said "I know I'm not supposed to ask, but are you pregnant?" I looked him straight in the eye and said "No." and got up and left. If he knew he wasn't supposed to ask, why did he ask? I finally found a job, and when they realized I was pregnant they were upset about it. But they couldn't fire me based on that because of the new law.
THANK YOU RBG! She changed the banking laws in the US to allow women the rights to ownership of bank accounts and financial instruments without permission of their husbands/fathers.
When my parents were married but before us kids, my mum had problems getting a chequebook/account. Told by the bank she could just use her husband's couldn't she? This is late 70s early 80s. And in response to some comments here let me clarify: NZ, not USA. Yes, the same NZ who was first to give women the vote. Sexism was and still is rampant, everywhere.
this! there are a few people I've met who say that "sexism is a lie because women can vote." "The pay gap exists because women are too emotional to do work as well as men." and some blatant sexism: "You must have cheated on the math test, a girl can't score that high!" the list goes on...
Load More Replies... My mother was a nursing student in the 1960s in Washington D.C.- they indeed had to be unmarried- but the combination of young and impressionable nursing students, predatory male doctors and hospital staff, and the lack of accessible birth control meant that when the inevitable “accidents” happened, the girls actually gave each other illegal abortions. It was definitely a thing that stuck with me. That and the bone-deep fear that RNs from that era had for Richard Speck. My mother wouldn’t flinch at the goriest of traumas, but he scared the s**t out of her.
Yes, my very dear friend is a retired nurse, she used to be asked to perform them all the time, and more than once had women arrive with the coat hanger they'd use to perforate their own uterus.
Load More Replies... What is GOP? Please don't use country specific abbreviations without defining them at least once somewhere in the text.
On behalf of Americans, I apologize. GOP is shorthand for Grand Old Party, a moniker applied to the Republican (far-right these days) Party of the United States of America. We use it so often that most people here probably don't even know what the GOP stands for other than "gross old profiteers".... (That's my version of it!)...
Load More Replies... The radical right won't defeat feminism, but complacency could. As a millennial it's easy to assume that progress is the natural order of things. It isn't. Precedents can be challenged, laws can be repealed, consensuses can be undone. What my generation hold as certainties are nothing of the sort. My generation needs to step up, and quickly. Because within the next decade people born in the 80s and 90s are going to be actually running things.
I definitely agree with this. I remember the feeling in the 90s was that everything was getting better and it was only a matter of time before men and women were equal. And society kind of took its watchful eye off the issue and we didn't hear about feminism for 10-15 years. Then suddenly in the 2010s people realised things had not got inevitably better, in fact in many areas society was backsliding. So even if from time to time there is some reactionary backlash against feminism, it is better than ignoring the issue.
Load More Replies... When I bought my first new car in the mid 70s, the bank wanted a male consigner. I told them I did not have a husband, my father passed away and no brother. Then they asked for my boss or a religious leader as a co-signer. Finally, they approved my $6K loan all by myself. I payed off a 4 year loan in 2 years. Never had a cosigner, never will!
I'm a female gamer and it's still a thing to get guys proclaiming that women and girls can't be serious gamers or game creators. It's because women weren't allowed to learn about computers to begin with, so anything on a screen was for boys and men. And this idea has been kept around for decades. I'm so glad we're finally in a place where me playing games as an adult isn't considered weird by most people.
Another thing that was illegal for women until the 1970s in the USA was to use their maiden name after getting divorced. Even if it was their husband who caused the breakup of the marriage, a woman had to continue using her husband's last name. I know this because my own mother was one of only two women who, in 1972/3, challenged this law and brought her case to the state supreme court. And won. Because my mother fought to change her name back to her previous name now all women are free to do so......and to use any name we want to, in fact.
I was once hired to be the Assistant Technical Director/Master Carpenter for a theatre (in the US). I was also asked "Why I was taking a job away from a man." i was 27. It was 2004. I'm now (2021) the first female BIPOC Director of Theatre at my school (previously only held by white men - still in the US). The school has been around since the mid-1800s. And I was still asked why I'm taking a job from a man (hint: 25+ years of professional experience and 4 graduate degrees in my field). A lot of this -ish still exists...
Conservatives in the US seem to want the 'advertising' version of history. Think of Coca-Cola, or cigarette advertising. It's a false nostalgia for a version of the world that never really existed. It lives on in the selective memory of the people who decidedly received the "long end of the stick."
I'm 58, I've been a computer programmer since the mid 1980's. I remember waiting for one interview right out of school. I was chatting with the receptionist, she asked what I did. I told her, and her reply was "and all that comes out of your pretty head?". The guy interviewing me was concerned that since I would be the only woman on his staff, the "guys" would either be uncomfortable around me and not be able to be themselves, or they would be themselves and I would be uncomfortable. Yep, he said that outright. Funny, I didn't take that job...
I knew a jackass who owned a plumbing company who told me he hired a female apprentice once, and that she was a good worker, but because the men couldn't act right and do their jobs, he let her go. Seriously, wtf.
Load More Replies... You have to realize that at no point in history, literally anywhere, was the life of a woman of equal value as the life of a man. Not even today. Not really, just barely.
I remember when I was first married and had a root canal done. The oral surgeon told me it had a 60/40% chance of working. Guess what it didn’t, I went back & told him it was even worse than before the procedure and he gave me pain meds and sent me home. Four days later and no relief. I go back & tell him that I want him to pull my tooth. He refuses because I “don’t understand how pain works”. I come back 2 hrs later this time with my husband who refuses to leave until Dr sees me again. We go back and oral surgeon completely ignores me; instead he asks my husband what he wants him to do. My husband said “listen to her and pull her #%*# tooth. That was 1991.
Also, often the only way for a woman to be able to leave home and get a house was to get married as women couldn't get mortgages (my mum couldn't in the 60's in uk).
This has to be one of those things people think of when they are referring to the ‚good old times‘, right? Right?
I'M... VERY... ANGRY... And so many Trump supporters want to bring us right back there.
I'm 54, old enough to remember these absurd laws in Canada and Québec. Younger women need to be educated on this.
The GOP (Republicans) in the US want to return to the '50s...the 1850's that is.
I remember in high school being one of the few guys marching along women for equal rights (1975/76). I might have been a stupid, immature idiot, but I knew enough that what these women were protesting about was right and just. It pains me to see so many people, some women included, pining for "the good old days". They were "old days", but not "good" by any stretch of the imagination.
In The Netherlands in the 60ties woman couldn't build a pension. That's why my divorced mother doesn't have a full pension right know.
You can always tell something is about the US because they never say it's the US. Anyone else would say, "What it was like in 1960s France" or wherever. People in the US never do it.
I remember being 12 in 1976. Our neighbour was in an abusive relationship. She had 5 kids under 10. Hubby.would not let her take birth control and she could not get it on her own. She got pregnant again and wanted an abortion. He would not sign the papers. She threw herself down the stairs in desperation to abort.
I owned the first woman owned Retail computer business in South Carolina before I was 21. someone told me that I was the only one in the NC,SC,GA areas. 1988 y'all. The reason I opened it? I couldn't get a job in the market at all!!! My business built custom DOS systems and later Windows systems. My daughter came home crying because her kindergarten teacher accused her of lying when my daughter proudly shared during show and tell that her mommy built computers for sale. I gave her an old motherboard to show and told her that it was the thing that you had to start with. I was so pissed I went to the teacher and having scheduled the time with the principal, built a working unit in 15 minutes. (I preloaded the software) . Turd of a teacher did apologize but with little grace.
Women could be forcibly admitted to psych hospital for crying after marital violence. Hysterics, you know. Tsk tsk. In that hospital, the woman could be stripped naked, subject to electroshock without anesthesia, drugged against her will. Women also responsible for husband’s debt. Apply for a job? Women subject to lewd comments and jokes. If hired, women subject to advances, and worse, from boss. In school? Forget science, unless your family had money for college. Women got the Two Choice Plan:, secretarial or homemaking. Either way, women had to be perfectly and discretely dressed and coifed. All this in 1960s.
This sounds like the US. I wish there were articles comparing it with the rest of the developed world.
Oh god I remember that ford thing when a woman was questioned about her hormones. Men did not believe they also had hormones and the only reason why some women felt "hormonal" during a period was bc of a surge in testosterone which men have every single day if their lives. They could not understand they had the same frigging hormones as women and actually men have a harder time controlling their outbursts and anger bc of their normal hormones. I think a lot of men still don't know they have the same hormones as women in relation to how they feel.
"A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need." This hit home for me *finally* more than the previous many decades I've mildly agreed with feminists. My mother's life was hard (her mother forced her into a marriage at 14, she divorced him and married my dad + had 7 children), her mother's life was hard (7 children), my dad's mother's life was hard (13 children) and it was always taken for granted that they'd do ALL of the cooking, cleaning, constantly bear children, and leave school by 12 or 13. Still I was slow to comprehend that none of them had much choice in their life, that they were not treated as equals. I'm sure from the outside it appeared they 'had it all' 'home & family', I loved my parents, they seemed content, but I remember the unspoken longing in my mother's eyes.
Mom couldn't buy FURNITURE on consignment after a divorce. She offered 50% down, and owned her own business. Nope, in 1972 she needed a man to sign for financial stuff.
It looks like since the beginning of time we humans have treated each other so horribly. It still goes on to this day and age. I honestly don't know what it's going to take to get people to see that you don't treat your own kind like this? Every single human being on this planet is your kind, our ken, our people, our blood. Why do we treat each other as though we are not? I'll never understand it, and I don't ever want to understand it.
My mom dealt with the credit card thing right after the supreme court made it legal for a woman to get a card in her own name with no one else's approval. It was a department store card, and they declined it because, of course, she didnt have her husband's approval. My mom, a sweet lady of 70ish now, who wouldnt say boo to a goose, went in an absolute rampage and ultimately threatened to get every news station in the city down there for an interview with her and she would have the managers all the way up to the top explain exactly why she was being turned down illegally. She got her credit card. :)
Keep in mind this is not true in all places of the US, I grew up in this era also, and I had some discrimination and harassment, but not on this level. Many women were expected to work. I got on the pill in college, with a male doctor. I did have a teacher tell me I had to drop geometry, even though I aced algebra, because "girls didn't belong in geometry". (Turns out I have a problem with memorization. My driving instructor in high school insisted that all the girls in his classes had to learn how to change a tire, but my father wouldn't let me learn how to work on a car. That last thing backfired after I killed a car because I didn't know to check the oil, lol.
kezzamo74@gmail.com thank goodness we were more advanced in gay rights and women's rights in the UK officially in the late 1960s and unofficially in the late 50s wow, changed much faster!
I am starting to be annoyed with posts of 9gag being so US centric. Am I the only one non US person to be reading this??? Like hey people there are countries outside the US too.
I read a post from a young feminist one day and couldn't help laughing. She got angry when I commented on how easy it is for feminists these days, so I pointed out she wouldn't be in college, wouldn't get equal pay, etc etc. Maybe it's time to teach the young ones how hard we fought to get them the things they take for granted
Women don't even get equal pay in every country.. Plus etc etc is an exaggeration, definitely has come a long way but still hasen't fully ended, feminists are still needed.
Load More Replies... Not everything on this list is accurate. Please don't accept everything at face value---BP is well known for letting anyone at all write anything at all, and a great deal of it is nothing but garbage. This article is one of them. Just because a few things are somewhat accurate, don't believe that they all are. Please, use your own brains first!!
True, and now women think it's about makeup and frilly clothes. Nope it never was.
It's amazing what people will blindly accept as fact simply because they read/see/hear it on the internet.... but then that's exactly what the MAGAheads do, so I shouldn't be surprised that it shows up anywhere.
Now tell us which are the myths, so we can check what you say.
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