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Omg! I didn't realize it was the 70s before some of these things were changed.

I know that some women in other countries still don't enjoy the kinds of rights and freedoms that we do. Makes me sad and so thankful to be born & living here.

The Charlize Theron movie North Country was based on real events that began in 1975. As part of the physical exam the female employees had to undergo was a pelvic exam to make sure they weren't pregnant. How crazy!

Yes the pregnancy discrimination act wasn't passed until 1978, so before then it was illegal to fire women and discriminate against them because they were pregnant.

Women also couldn't get credit cards in their own name until the 70s, in many states couldn't buy property in their own name without having a male relative sign as well until just a couple of decades ago.

When people, especially women, act like feminism was only needed to remedy situations long long ago; it makes me a little bit ragey and also boggles the mind.

Wow! I'm glad we have a choice now.

This! This it's why all the ”I'm not a feminist” memes going around these days are so maddening. Shows such a deep lack of historical understanding...very recent history! Grrrr.

Wow...hadn't realized that the Ivy Leagues didn't take women until the late 60s/70s. And the rest of that proves anti-feminism the most ridiculous kind of revisionist history...and male chauvinism. I need to read the rest of the article!

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Sounds like a pretty fair comparison to me.

I am currently living in the Middle East and have been asked about birth control at job interviews and was also asked why I don't have children yet. I require my husbands written permission to work, he recieves a text message when I use our joint account to make purchases (does not work the other way round!) and also when I leave the country. I am moving back to the UK in 2 weeks, thank goodness!

@Lolo: That is fascinating! You should write a guest blog post about living in the ME and being pregnant there. (totally thread crashing, sorry @BlueWolverine)

The 1950's and 1960's were pretty fucked up in regards to women. I read this book (The Girls Who Went Away) about women who had unplanned pregnancies during that era....it was incredibly eye opening. This was before Roe vs. Wade. Many were forced to go to maternity homes and strong armed into giving their babies up for adoption. They knew nothing about birth control or safe sex, nobody told them what to expect when birthing the baby (many were just knocked out), or their rights. You were kicked out of high school and college if you were pregnant...and it also discussed the whole birth control thing and how it was illegal unless you were married!

@blackbird: my mom was a teen in the 60s. She described teen pregnancy as "getting caught" having pre-pre-marital sex. One of her friends got married while in HS because she was caught. One of old neighbors who is older than my mom is rumored to have been sent to CA when she began to show as a teen. She doesn't have any children.