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An American woman needed her husband’s permission to open a bank account as recently as the 1960s

8 Rights Women Didnt Have a Century Ago …

Women’s rights are something we take for granted these days. Because it was all a long time ago that the suffragettes fought for the right to vote, wasn’t it? However, women’s rights still depend very much on where they live, and even some of the rights we take for granted were relatively recently achieved. Here are some of the women’s rights that have been accomplished over the last 100 years or so …

Vote

The right to vote has been one of the most important of all the women’s rights achieved over the last century. We might wonder at times whether it’s even worth voting, but let’s not forget that not so many generations back, women didn’t even have the option of choosing who would govern them. That’s one of the reasons why it’s so i… Continue Reading (3 minute read)

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