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Originally Posted by brostholder
Some more "good riddance" memories:
women being refused entrance to restaurants for wearing slacks instead of a skirt.
very few professions open to women who wanted to or needed to work....secretary, nurse, teacher.
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My parents got married in 1957...last week would have been their 55th wedding anniversary. My mother's employer did not want married woman working in the office. So the policy in 1957 at this company for new married female office employees was...quit or transfer to the second shift which meant working from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Since most newly married woman in 1957 did not want to work second shift, most of them resigned from this company shortly after getting married. When my mother told me about this when I was a teenager in the 1970's I was amazed that women put up with this. Times have certainly changed -- the company I work for sends female employees all over the world to visit customers; about the only places female employees are not sent to visit are to customers in the conservative Muslim countries where woman are treated like second class citizens.