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      However if you were a minority or a woman it was also a bitch to get a loan prior to it. Though women couldn’t even have their own bank accounts till… the 60s/70s?

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        Women earned the right in the 60s, but it wasn’t until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in '74 until banks were forbidden from requiring a husband’s signature.

        The Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits financial institutions from discriminating against applicants based on their sex, age, marital status, religion, race or national origin.

        https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/when-could-women-open-a-bank-account/

        I worked for a Credit Union as a developer. I can attest that at least where I worked, there was a host of yearly modules you had to complete to ensure you were up to speed on how to not be an asshole and they took it quite seriously.

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      Sorry, but Tay Zonday was born in '82, so predates the credit score. (There’s only one Tay Tay for me and it’s Zonday)

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        …TIL he’s older than me. What a wild world. He looked he was in high school when he went viral.