Jason Lefkowitz on Nostr: “Before the 1970s, most banks required a man to cosign in order for a woman to open ...

“Before the 1970s, most banks required a man to cosign in order for a woman to open an account, a father for an underage woman, a husband for an adult woman. Likewise, most banks and other lenders refused to open lines of credit for female applicants. As you might imagine, widows and divorced women especially struggled in this financial landscape.”

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2024/10/06/what-were-feminist-credit-unions-and-why-did-anchorage-have-one-in-the-1970s/