Reply #143: My memory, too

[OzarkDem]

The issue of sharing pensions after divorce was part of the feminist movement. Women who gave up careers to raise families and whose husbands divorced them after many years of marriage found themselves impoverished with little or no job skills or experience. The courts began to recognize that women giving up a career to support husbands and raise families were giving up something of value and should be compensated in some way when there was a divorce.

Of course the same rules also applied to men.