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20 Ordinary Things Women Couldn’t Do In The ’50s And ’60s

17. Get a mortgage.

Relative Reality

A married woman would likely have to get her husband’s signature in order to get a mortgage.

18. Adopt a baby as a single woman.

Daily Mail

This was possible in some U.S. states, but some states passed regulations banning it or making it difficult. That gradually changed in the 1960s, as state adoption agencies started actively recruiting single women to widen the pool of potential adopters.

19. Become presidential nominee for a major political party.

Politico

Hillary Clinton was the first woman ever to receive a major party nomination in 2016. Before that, women had run for president, but they stood no chance because they weren’t major-party nominees. Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the very first female candidate for president all the way back in 1872.

20. Seek legal redress for being discriminated against in school.

Offbeat

Women didn’t have much legal recourse if they faced sexism in the classroom. It wasn’t until 1972 that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, banning educational discrimination on the grounds of gender, became law.

Source: (Offbeat, Did You Know Facts )

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