Feminists

...apply for bank accounts, credit cards, and mortgages entirely in their own names without a husband's or male relative's permission in America until the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act!

1974.... Let's let that sink in. That's only 52 years ago. And it happened 54 years after women finally got the right to vote in America.

Yes, progress started in the 1830s, but the ECOA was the real turning point for single women.

How many women were forced into the marriage "contract" in order to just be able to have a life outside of their birth home?

For too many women marriage wasn't a choice but a necessity. And it turns out that marriage rates have plummeted over the last five decades since women gained this bit of freedom that men always had.

Maybe in another 100 years we will have finally fully shed the damage that was done.