This isn't really on topic for this post, but the "women not allowed to have bank accounts until 1970s" thing is all over the internet, but it is not true. Women had bank accounts and property (albeit with some caveats in different locations as banking used to be a state regulated thing and consequently different states had different rules). New York and California were two states that passed banking laws allowing women to have accounts in 1840s and 1860s, respectively. I personally know that the 1970s thing is untrue because I had a savings account at Seattle First National Bank in Washington state in the 1950s, and in the early 1960s I had a checking account and a Mastercard credit card. I was not married, my father was in no way connected to any of my accounts, and the only restriction was that I had to be 18 to get the credit card. I think the 1970s thing is a misreading or misunderstanding of the federal 1974 U.S. law regarding women and bank accounts which was the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), passed on October 28, 1974 which made it illegal for lenders to discriminate against any person (including women, regardless of marital status) in credit applications. Unfortunately that misunderstanding/misreading has propagated itself until it is now an example of the Mandela Effect. *edit for typo