A Husband's Permission

The sixties may seem like an aeon ago, especially to young women. But in the span of human history, it isn't very long ago and the changes that have happened between then and now are monumental. The young women of today who don't want to call themselves feminists may not realize what the feminists of the sixties achieved. To see what they came out of to where we are today is astounding.

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They literally brought women into the world. We were sequestered away as an accessory of husbands. Our job was to keep that home and that's it. Women didn't have choices like we do now. And if they did choose to do something different, rest assured that their way was made very difficult.

When I was in college, one of my professors told us that when she was first married (in the seventies) she went to the local library to get a card and was told she needed her husband's permission. As a married woman, she had the rights of a child! So, as a reminder, here are five things women couldn't do in the sixties.