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The following list is of NINE things a woman couldn't do in 1971 - yes the date is correct, 1971. [View all] MiniMe Aug 2019 OP

Great summary Sanity Claws Aug 2019 #1

I started college in 1963 at a state university. DURHAM D Aug 2019 #17

1966 freshman state college campus zeusdogmom Aug 2019 #49

I started practicing law in the '80s and female lawyers were expected to wear suits, not dresses StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #22

I remember that we had to wear dresses to school treestar Aug 2019 #60

And you weren't allowed to talk on job marlakay Aug 2019 #68

I do not miss panty hose. I wonder how many pairs gldstwmn Aug 2019 #110

Girls were not allowed to wear pants in my school system until 1971. yardwork Aug 2019 #111

Thank you for posting this ... CatMor Aug 2019 #2

My daughters don't understand how things were not that long ago. AJT Aug 2019 #3

This should be required in the curricula of all school systems. nt LAS14 Aug 2019 #4

Yep. Although I lived in N.Y. marybourg Aug 2019 #5

Thank you for posting this information. Dave in VA Aug 2019 #6

We have to fight to remember / remind we're we came from in history thinkingagain Aug 2019 #7

Could not get a bank loan, had to have her husbands approval to buy a house in her own name katmondoo Aug 2019 #8

or a car nt DURHAM D Aug 2019 #13

If her husband or father wouldn't/couldn't co-sign on the loan FakeNoose Aug 2019 #16

I remember those bad old days very well. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #9

K & R malaise Aug 2019 #10

Yes need to educate the young ones because burrowowl Aug 2019 #131

Most don't have a clue malaise Aug 2019 #132

And while not having researched any of this, I would be greatly surprised if republicans pangaia Aug 2019 #11

Republicans then were very different from Publicans marybourg Aug 2019 #75

Yes, there were some respectable republicans back then captain queeg Aug 2019 #81

I agree. marybourg Aug 2019 #82

Newt decimated the ethical scaffolding, making way for mcconnell's evil. JudyM Aug 2019 #96

Interesting way of looking at republicans, at least since just before reagan, pangaia Aug 2019 #105

Pangaia, your first point... JudyM Aug 2019 #151

Yes, I know. I live in NY pangaia Aug 2019 #87

Contrary to popular belief there was a time when decent Republicans existed Jake Stern Aug 2019 #103

K & R Mrs. Overall Aug 2019 #12

I was able to get a oprescription for the Pill PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #14

The availability of the pill depended on where you lived. DURHAM D Aug 2019 #21

Yes, it was amazing that the few young women I knew in college in the late Sixties who took maddiemom Aug 2019 #74

I may have told this story here before, murielm99 Aug 2019 #88

Good grief. That is a new one. nt DURHAM D Aug 2019 #91

What arrogance. Glad you found another doctor. Nt raccoon Aug 2019 #109

RE: #2... babylonsister Aug 2019 #15

And we were so self-righteous because Saudi women couldn't drive! thesquanderer Aug 2019 #18

Link to source? left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 #19

Pulled off of Facebook, no link MiniMe Aug 2019 #30

I have Facebook left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 #32

Will try to find it MiniMe Aug 2019 #33

found it left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 #36

Sometimes Facebook sucks to find the original article MiniMe Aug 2019 #46

Did you click on my link? left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 #48

Yes, and that is the article MiniMe Aug 2019 #52

Thanks, yes, that it the one MiniMe Aug 2019 #47

Lifted pretty heavily from a 2014 CNN article: greyl Aug 2019 #64

Funny thing, that: a lot of us could assemble that list from memory,with only a few checks for dates Hekate Aug 2019 #65

Great list Gothmog Aug 2019 #20

Kick and rec underpants Aug 2019 #23

We need the ERA NOW!! lastlib Aug 2019 #24

Couldn't get birth control if you were a young woman without a marriage license. lark Aug 2019 #25

I remember in Boston during very harsh winters, we could wear pants under our skirts - dawg day Aug 2019 #27

My GF and I were able to get birth control pills in '72 FL as teens. Ligyron Aug 2019 #57

In 1972, you were a teenager with a SIX dollar an hour job? maddiemom Aug 2019 #130

Well, I'm male so naturally I was paid more. Ligyron Aug 2019 #136

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. maddiemom Aug 2019 #142

in 1966 and 67 I worked a job for 35 dollars a week. That was under a demigoddess Sep 2019 #159

It is interesting in the article, it says it was originally for "menstrual distress." treestar Aug 2019 #61

They were also used for "menstrual regulation." lark Aug 2019 #106

Wow that doctor - if you have a miscarriage treestar Aug 2019 #143

My sisters' hormones were out of whack, 100%. lark Aug 2019 #144

I wonder is it really "dangerous" treestar Aug 2019 #145

It was 50 years ago, so can't remember all the ways he said it was dangerous. lark Aug 2019 #146

An older friend of mine wanted to get a sterilization after four children dawg day Aug 2019 #26

Many doctors still have requirements for tubal ligation Niagara Aug 2019 #119

Kick. MontanaMama Aug 2019 #28

I couldn't get a loan to buy a new car on my own in 71. procon Aug 2019 #29

Makes it really tough to establish Ilsa Aug 2019 #89

10: Roe v Wade was not decided until 1973 malthaussen Aug 2019 #31

8. Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man. LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #34

Interestingly, I might not mind soldierant Aug 2019 #127

In 1971, we couldn't play actual basketball because our uteruses might fall out. dawg day Aug 2019 #35

I remember that idiocy burrowowl Aug 2019 #133

My aunt was told horseback riding treestar Aug 2019 #147

With my 1959 college degree applying for a job in a Manhattan ad agency, BarbD Aug 2019 #37

1969: The director of an elite university art museum fired me bkz "my wife feels you're too pretty." stuffmatters Aug 2019 #125

This might still be happening in the 21st century... Backseat Driver Aug 2019 #150

OMG, the ubiquitous typing tests for all women applicants. stuffmatters Aug 2019 #134

I investigated attending a local business college Backseat Driver Aug 2019 #153

Newspapers listed jobs in two columns: murielm99 Aug 2019 #38

I was just talking with my husband about this the other day. livetohike Aug 2019 #63

I had forgotten about that! Daphne08 Aug 2019 #73

Do you have a link? nt tblue37 Aug 2019 #39

It is off of Facebook. MiniMe Aug 2019 #50

Everyone who lived through all that remembers. n/t pnwmom Aug 2019 #97

Wow! One hopes that the Republican Reactionaries don't work to restore this list to active duty. NT NNadir Aug 2019 #40

Just mind boggling. Ohiogal Aug 2019 #41

Several states only criminalize forced spousal rape Major Nikon Aug 2019 #42

I just logged in to make that very point. Ms. Toad Aug 2019 #107

I began college in 1957 spartan61 Aug 2019 #43

Remember being subject to 7 out of 9 of those. sinkingfeeling Aug 2019 #44

I remember a lady in the early 70s who went to a surgeon to have demigoddess Aug 2019 #45

Good god. Nt raccoon Aug 2019 #112

Would we consider those achievements of the Baby Boom generation? kentuck Aug 2019 #51

My thoughts exactly! OKNancy Aug 2019 #56

Same here. nt DURHAM D Aug 2019 #59

Me too! llmart Aug 2019 #124

Pretty incredible facts. Pepsidog Aug 2019 #53

Pretty mindblowing! smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #54

In '79 I had to fight to get utilities and a phone after my divorce! Greybnk48 Aug 2019 #55

When I attended a public high school in LibDemAlways Aug 2019 #58

I remember it well. It's deeply painful to watch our society regress. nt Hekate Aug 2019 #62

It's sometimes hard for me, a man, to remember all the changes. captain queeg Aug 2019 #66

In 1969 in NV we could work overtime, just couldn't be paid overtime. Hortensis Aug 2019 #67

And we still have young women proudly claiming they are not feminists question everything Aug 2019 #69

My father had to cosign for me Daphne08 Aug 2019 #70

I lied in every job interview I went on, Mme. Defarge Aug 2019 #71

Going to grade school in the 1960s Ginger42 Aug 2019 #72

I remember those bitter cold days. Delmette2.0 Aug 2019 #115

My wife and I were teaching in SC in the 70s.... Sancho Aug 2019 #76

Women could also not get a mortgage in their own name as well until the 1980s NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #77

My neighbor was a claims adjuster in 1971 JenniferJuniper Aug 2019 #78

Cornell in the Ivy League did admit women starting in 1870 NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #79

Yes, and in the sixties, Dartmouth, Yale & Princeton did not admit undergrad women at all. stuffmatters Aug 2019 #129

Back in the 1960s NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #135

That was not my perception or lived experience of my own class of 1965-1969. stuffmatters Aug 2019 #155

Females were required to take Home Economics DURHAM D Aug 2019 #80

Don't remember it as being a requirement to graduate MiniMe Aug 2019 #83

I was in the band. DURHAM D Aug 2019 #86

This message was self-deleted by its author captain queeg Aug 2019 #138

It was required at my school in So Calif procon Aug 2019 #152

That was still going on when I was in HS captain queeg Aug 2019 #84

When? MiniMe Aug 2019 #85

Graduated HS in 75, college in 89 captain queeg Aug 2019 #139

It's a life skill shanti Aug 2019 #90

iirc they started calling it Domestic Arts. DURHAM D Aug 2019 #92

It occurs to me that the refusal to issue credit cards to women may have had something in common Nitram Aug 2019 #94

We couldn't wear pants to school OKNancy Aug 2019 #95

I was just talking on the phone with my sibling about Home Ec. DURHAM D Aug 2019 #98

We had to take it in 8th grade while the boys took metal shop treestar Aug 2019 #149

+1 it was a required course from 7th to 9th grade for all girls. Boys demigoddess Aug 2019 #156

In 1983 I saw a judge in the 9th District Federal Court Mr.Bill Aug 2019 #93

Justice Ginsburg graduated from Cornell in 1954 and Columbia Law School in 1959. That's "Ivy League" Progressive Law Aug 2019 #99

In that year my mother had to get a "Power of Attorney" rickyhall Aug 2019 #100

Women in Switzerland didn't have the right to vote until 1972. Collimator Aug 2019 #101

1971 in Chicago locks Aug 2019 #102

Unfortunately, titling cars that way was common back then MiniMe Aug 2019 #108

Well that's amazing but mahina Aug 2019 #104

Yep, born LittleGirl Aug 2019 #113

Whenever someone, Ginger42 Aug 2019 #114

1968 credit card skorpo Aug 2019 #116

I think? Women couldn't be cops New Breed Leader Aug 2019 #117

That sounds about right MiniMe Aug 2019 #120

In Switzerland, women got the vote just in that year! LeftishBrit Aug 2019 #118

Kicked & Rec Niagara Aug 2019 #121

In 1978 mgardener Aug 2019 #122

Penn started admitting women in the 1870s... brooklynite Aug 2019 #123

Re number 4. sarge43 Aug 2019 #126

This is a great thread and yes, I think I'll print it off for any young woman who doesn't like... llmart Aug 2019 #128

Thanks to all who posted. I remember it all! Once in a while, I te4ll my granddaughter about napi21 Aug 2019 #137

My mother used to rant and rave about #1 BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #140

Fuck Head and Moscow Mitch would love to go back to that. 47of74 Aug 2019 #141

Thanks for the info peasant one Aug 2019 #148

In 1976 my parents pettioned the local trade school to allow me to take auto mechanics Runningdawg Aug 2019 #154

I remember a girl in second grade being told by the principal that demigoddess Aug 2019 #157

My mother wrote to the school board JenniferJuniper Aug 2019 #158