The year 2017 has not been without its challenges when it comes to women’s rights.
Here are some crazy things women were unable to do just 50 years ago.
Many banks also required women to have a man co-sign their credit card applications.
Even Hillary Clinton recalls once being denied a credit card.
And so this is not like ancient history," she said in an interview onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Serve on a jury
According to theLibrary of Congress, a female juror was practically fiction.
It wasn’t until 1973 that women were finally allowed to serve in juries across all 50 states.
In fact,Yale didn’t become coeducational until the fall of 1969.
Other institutions took even longer.
Columbia University, for instance, recently celebrated 25 years of coeducation.
According to Columbia’s community newspaperThe Record, the university was an all-male institution until 1983.
Still, itwasn’t until 1999that Radcliffe officially merged with Harvard.
Even worse, a company could fire you for becoming pregnant.
It wasn’t until thePregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978that pregnancy discrimination became illegal.
Complain about sexual harassment at work
The workplace was far from friendly for women 50 years ago.
Wood had quit her job after her unwelcome touching from her supervisor.
In 2012, the Olympics made history when they officially added women’s boxing to its roster of competitions.
We are delighted too, but just a little sad that it took until 2012.
As long as we continue to work together toward progress, we will reach our goals.
