@JohnShirley2023 And not until the early 70s before women could get a bank account without a husband co-signing.

@JamesPadraicR The checks for my parents’ joint bank account listed my mother as “Mrs. [Dad’s name]” until the mid-1980s. When she opened a new joint account at a different bank to receive direct deposit from her new job, my dad wasn’t present with her, and the bank listed her real name first then then my dad’s name, and my dad was shocked and offended. (He got over it eventually.) Btw, she signed everything else as Mrs. [Dad’s Name] for several more years.

@sbtan I think my father had to co-sign for my mother to get an account and buy a car, while they were getting divorced. She didn’t need him when she enlisted in the army.