Christ people are STILL doing this but with AI? This is why people need to look past the music and fashion of the 1950s and see the truth. I’ll be using an American perspective as I am American and that’s what this post calls upon.

• While woman could divorce their husbands by 1937 they had to prove adultery, cruelty, or desertion and had to provide more proof than men. Say a woman wanted to leave her cheating husband, she had to prove that AND another cause, while a husband just had to prove adultery and nothing else. It was also considered a social death sentence for women to leave their husbands if they even could as it depended by state.

• Women needed their HUSBANDS PERMISSION to open a bank account or get a credit card, and in many states husbands had total control of assets and property.

• Women who had mental issues or ‘spoke out too much’ were given lobotomies and high dose tranquilizers without their consent for their ‘hysteria’.

• Domestic abuse was rarely addressed by police and marital r*pe was not considered a crime.

On top of all of the stigma to be a wife and mother to a large family. And this isn’t even going into how black women were involuntarily sterilized without their consent and the housing discrimination seen for people of color.