FACTOIDS
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The celebration of Women's History Month dates back to the mid-twentieth century, when historians, Elizabeth H. Pleck and Gerda Lerner, confronted the absence of women in scholarship, and spearheaded the first graduate programs in women's history.
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Fact check: Post detailing nine things women couldn't do before 1971 is mostly right
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Forty Years Ago, Women Had a Hard Time Getting Credit Cards
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WOMEN & CREDIT “Banks could refuse women a credit card until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 was signed into law. Prior to that, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman, and if a woman was married, her husband was required to cosign.
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Many banks required single, divorced or widowed women to bring a man with them to cosign for a credit card, according to CNN, and some discounted the wages of women by as much as 50% when calculating their credit card limits, according to an article from Smithsonian Magazine.”
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Most of the changes made in family law in the late twentieth century have been based on overturning concepts of marriage, family, and gender that go back to European feudalism, canon (church) law, and custom
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March is National Women's History Month, but since women are pretty historic year-round, it begs the question: Why March? Is this month significant to women's history, or is it just an arbitrary month on the calendar?
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