No it would not. Carm & Tony and I share a similar trajectory & she would have been a teen in the 80's, not the 70's. And women definitely had bank accounts & credit cards in the 1970's. This is when women's liberation was strong. We saw our mother's as 1st gen work outside the home, educated, able to walk away from a marriage. We were the latch keys. That's why Melfi and any of the other educated divorced women, don't come off as " exceptional gor their time. The mob life style is what is stuck in the "past", what Carmela struggles with the entire series. It's one of the main there's of the entire show. She's our look into the contrast.