@lostwomenseries: Lost Women: Emily Card and how women fought for equal economic opportunity. Sources: Voices on Independence: Four Oral Histories About Building Women’s Economic Power | Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Women at the Top of Their Game | Tulane University

sisyphean :

Yes, i dont think many young women realise how recent this all was

Chea :

Her last name being card is kinda perfect

SquirrellyFool :

my mother was finally able to get credit in her name and leave my abusive father because this law changed. she was overjoyed....

olivia :

1970!!! Insane

kit Falbo :

The AI denied them accidentally. (the new excuse)

lizhill202 :

Another backward step and they think feminists should shut up about it already?! 🤬

StarlightFrequency :

we are reverting it seems, what is going on ????

SignetPlanet 🇨🇦 :

my mother helped many married women find loopholes to get their own credit cards so they could have a credit rating of their own as that needed to be in place if they were ever suddenly on their own. Some of the stories of the loopholes they used are hilarious

cocogigi :

Thank you Emily

Mrs Kbrawl :

My mother never forgave Sears for denying her credit, as a divorced woman with kids.

Happy VA Girl :

GOD BLESS HER! She saved all of us.

gen_jones_on_the_bayou :

My father made sure that I got a credit card in my name (without his) in 1983. I didn't understand how progressive that was.

waterhag71🇨🇦 :

I’m calling my credit card Emily Card from here on out *insert photoshopped pic of a card with Emily’s face on it bc I’m not gunna ask ai and I’m tired*

Donna Kulp Wood :

I heard about this as a kid. In the 1990s when equal pay for equal work became a law I was so excited! To this day it has never been enforced😡

Chryssa Koulis :

I love your content! Thank you.

luckyvibeapp :

Go Emily 👏👏👏

Medusa :

naiya 🦇༉‧₊˚. :

the fact that we are heading back towards these times is terrifying, especially as someone who’s been very independent my entire life, i would have no man to fall back on familial wise, and i am never getting married period to anyone let alone a man 💀

الذكر الحكيم :

no reliable source

LoRain427 :

Women were also not responsible to pay, in other words, a women could use her husband’s credit card and not have to pay the bill

nightowl_72 🇦🇺 For 🇵🇸 :

where and when did they change the laws back?

H :

Hi, i’m a huge fan! You are doing so much good work with this series.

looking4thegood :

THANK YOU EMILY !!!

✨tina :

When my grandfather cheated on and left her - the banks refused to put the mortgage. Sears was the first place to give her a credit card. She passed when I was in 10th grade. It was really not long ago at all