Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It’s in your own article.
Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.
Only in the same way it was true that men couldn’t vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn’t have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.
I don’t know what to tell you. At least one of my grandmothers needed their husband’s signature to open a bank account in the 60’s, and it wasn’t because she didn’t have assets in her name.
You know that isn’t true, right?
Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It’s in your own article.
The article says the 1974 law concerns credit applications, not bank accounts
I’m going need a 90 minute documentary and a giant bowl of popcorn to absorb all this
Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.
Only in the same way it was true that men couldn’t vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn’t have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.
I don’t know what to tell you. At least one of my grandmothers needed their husband’s signature to open a bank account in the 60’s, and it wasn’t because she didn’t have assets in her name.
Any chance you have a link to a reputable source, or a site anyone else besides you has heard of?
Not without their husband’s permission. That is to say, they were allowed as long as their husband was happy with their wifely performance.