This is amazing - and horrifying - to me. I was born in the early 1970s and I cannot even imagine a world...

May 28 2013

This is amazing - and horrifying - to me. I was born in the early 1970s and I cannot even imagine a world in where my fierce and independent (and single) mom lived in an environment like this.

I still have a lot of work to do to make things right for my daughter and my granddaughters (if I have any...lol)

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10 Things That American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s

In the 1970s, Irish women could not own their own home or even go to a pub. They could not sit on a jury or refuse to have sex with their husbands. We learned all this in Irish Central's charming post, " How things have changed - ten things that Irish women could not do in 1970s.

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/05/28/10-things-that-american-women-could-not-do-before-the-1970s/