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In reply to the discussion: Who remembers life for women before RBG? [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)The changes since she (and many others) are the product of a lot of hard work by a lot of women - some very visible, but a lot of other ordinary women just doing what needed to be done to move us forward.
As to the specific question (stripped from the RBG changed the world posture)
I did a survey in 1974 for my high school English/research project and asked superintendents of dozens of schools in rural Nebraska if they had the choice between hiring a woman math or physics teacher or a man, which one would they hire. To my surprise, many expressed a (then already illegal) preference for hiring men.
As an unmarried woman, I could not hold a credit card in my own name when I graduated from high school.
Until 1968, even though I lived on a farm in rural Nebraska and attended a one-room country a mile away from home, I was required to wear a skirt to school. As a compromise, those of us walking the mile (or more) to school in blizzards were permitted to wear pants as long as we changed out of them immediately when we arrived.