I don’t know what country you’re from but I’m american and it was pretty much the same:
Women in the U.S. couldn’t have their own bank accounts until the 1960s, or their own credit cards until 1974.
States could (and did) bar women from serving on juries until 1973.
Seek medical care without the permission/presence of a male guardian, until the 1970s I’m told.
Women didn’t have the legal right to refuse to have sex with their husbands. Really. Rape committed by one’s husband wasn’t legally recognized as rape until the 1970s. And wasn’t even fully criminalized until 1993. Today, martial rape it’s still rarely prosecuted, and many women still have to choose between leaving abusive partners and risking homelessness.
Get a divorce without jumping through hoops, and possibly moving to California. The first No Fault Divorce law (which mean you weren’t required to prove in court that your spouse had broken your marriage laws) was only passed in California in 1969. It wasn’t adopted in all states until 2010.
Obtain equal cost healthcare until 2010. It was totally legal to discriminate based on sex when it came to charging people for healthcare, so guess who paid more. And is still paying more, while having unequal access: 1 2 3 .
Receive equal pay for equal work until… wait, we still don’t have that one.
Please note that none of these battles are over. These were turning points, but american women today still lack equal access to all of these rights, and states have fought back against these laws with many levels of success, delaying national progress by decades.
NEVER let anyone use the existence of Sex Discrimination laws, the Civil Rights Act, or recent (hard-won) gains in LGBTQ+ legal rights, as proof that sexism, racism, and queer discrimination are not alive and thriving, both within and outside of the law. The burden still very much remains on the minority individual.
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