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It was difficult to believe no one picked up and continued to run this great series highlighting what WAS when there are so many absolutely mindless inane series that drone on and mentally strip mine our American brains.
Given additional time, the writers might have also had opportunity to magnified many OTHER changes that occurred a mere few years prior to 1969. During THOSE times there were so many inequities which in today's light might be considered third world oppression of half the population.
This series had me reflecting back to a few things from that era that immediately come to light ...
mandatory high school curriculum: all girls were required to take home economics, sewing, office procedures and typing classes with the assumption we would never go on to college even though we were pursuing college prep classes.
women required permission from their husband to apply/obtain a credit card or desiring a separate bank account.
working women were unable to obtain a loan without their husband's permission or, if single, it necessitated securing a co-signer. If a co-signer was secured, the interest rates women paid were nearly double that of their male counterpart.
to obtain birth control, women were required to be married AND have their husband's permission.
women lost their job if it was discovered they were pregnant, working women hid their pregnancies with girdles until they began to "show".
all men were in management with "his girl" sitting outside his office.
advances/passes, touching/grabbing were never reported due to fear of job loss and labeling as a trouble maker.
outspoken women were commonly and publicly criticized, jeered and labeled when speaking out against the inequity or if they expressed any personal thought or self-authority.
Bizarre right? .... well, this was really not all that long ago ...
score 10/10
tmcaleer-00129 6 October 2017
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