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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 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 (4 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

[–] ironeagl 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.

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