American Women Are Still Gaining Strength
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (167111)
Boise, Idaho
October 31, 2024 6:53pm CST
Your vote is a private matter. When you go inside the voting booth what you do there is your own private matter. It has been a part of the culture for so many years that women vote like their husbands. Gone are the days when women just automatically voted like their husbands.
In 1973 women still could not open a bank account or get a credit card in their own name without their husband's signature.
White women have only been free for about 70 years.
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@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Nov
And then quickly had others taken away.
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@JudyEv (340286)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Nov
@celticeagle In a way, nothing much has changed.
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@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Nov
@JudyEv .......In most areas it is probably much the same.
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@crossbones27 (49491)
• Mojave, California
1 Nov
It still amazes me how people do not think this is a good thing. Apparently many people think a lot of people should not be free. What a travesty to modern society.
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@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Nov
Many feel that women should be thumbed and that men have all the power. I firmly reject that idea.
@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Nov
And women need to get the right to choose in the abortion situation back. Women of child baring age have lost so many rights.
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@LindaOHio (178869)
• United States
1 Nov
I had a credit card in my own name in 1969. But you're right about women's rights. Some men still think the woman should be in the kitchen. Have a good weekend.
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@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Nov
Were you married then? Have a good one.
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@LindaOHio (178869)
• United States
2 Nov
@celticeagle No. I got married in 1970.
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@Ghostlady (1315)
• United States
1 Nov
Not sure where you live, but I had a bank account in my name in 1973...And I vote the way I want to and always have. No one has ever told me who I can vote for not a family...not my husband. But keeping secrets between a husband and wife is not good...a relationship is based on Trust. If anything I talked Tom into voting..he had never voted until 2016. And I pushed him to vote this year...he kept putting off going. I made up my mind in 2016 long before I could even get him to go register.
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@celticeagle (167111)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Nov
I am in Idaho.
Many women let men have complete power over them while others have stronger personalities and do not let that happen. I agree that secrets in a marriage are not good. I'm sure each bank has its own rules and some may have expected the husband to sign for the wife while others would not. I have read that woman in the Victorian Age couldn't even wear some jewelry unless their husbands okayed it. Weird.
