• Shyfer@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think women could get credit cards until the 70’s, so things aren’t perfect for them and the jobs and salary gaps were even more skewed then. But ya, at least penicillin was a thing.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      Im not sure if women could get credit cards in the 50’s, but almost no one had credit cards in the 50’s. They didn’t really go mainstream till the late 60’s and up through all the 80’s I remember most people still just using cash or checks. You had a credit card and it needed to go on a manual little machine with a slip of paper over the top that made a “rubbing” of the card for the store to have a copy.

      Hell. Credit scores didn’t even exist till like the mid 80’s.