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To answer your question is this still prevalent today? The expectation that a mother will stay home with the kids - no. The expectation that...

I worked in retail for a while in the mid 1980s. My boss at the time would follow me around when the store was not busy and ask me what color my...

Interesting watching the Chicago mayor’s press conference this afternoon. The teacher’s union has dug their heels in and are refusing to return to in...

Catherine, it takes a lot for me to get to the quitting part. I stayed in my second marriage for my kids for 22 years to someone controlling and...

Nice, Tradd....

They are beautiful! DH just “spoke” to me about spending too much money lately, so i erased all of the items on my ebay watchlist to get my...

IL they conduct heat like nobody's business. Whenever we watch something like Downton Abby or any period European show with a shot of a kitchen in it...

The truth is my one experience of sexism in the workplace (oh I've met plenty of jerks outside the workplace, a ton) but IN the workplace, is maybe...

Hm. We both cook. We had, for years, dinerware, because it just didn't break. That got too heavy and I was looking for enamelware to replace it with....

Mushroom burgers, not vegetarian.

Copper pans are very attractive to me right now. Two of you have mentioned them. Do you keep them copper colored shiney? Tell me about cooking...

Today I broke a new trail in the forest... tramping on snowshoes. I am investigating a new sit spot, with conifers standing to the north, at my...

I owned some earth shoes, maybe 10-15 years ago.

Back in the 80's my then DH and I worked in retail and he was a housewares buyer for a very nice department store. Needless to say we bought the 80's...

A tour de force.

The idea that some man would define my life was poison to me, thus my never-married status. I like men--a lot--but on my own terms.

Mine was a BankAmericard too, and I have no idea what I used it for--schoolbooks, maybe. I did like Earth shoes, though I never had any.

My mother always told me that she wanted to know another life besides the mountains she grew up in where most women married very young to farmers or...

I traveled extensively for my job for years. I know many people but would classify them as acquaintances not anyone I could count on for help. I...

Cottage cheese while beets roast. I will probably have them with sour cream.

Guess I took it to mean today too...

My first credit card was a BankAmericard and my first credit purchase was for Earth Shoes. 1974.

Too funny:))

Oddly, I don't remember having any trouble qualifying for a credit card, circa 1967 or so.

Burrito filled with finely diced carrots, onion, mushrooms plus chicken and an Asian pear.

Yes, I've heard that, too, but that hasn't kept me from over-analyzing everything. You remind me of my MIL... at one point, she learned that her...

Great news, Tradd!

Having a hard time getting approved is not the same as being legally barred from approval or paying higher interest rates. "Forty years ago, any...

Yea I think far more people are probably doing daycare than nannies. But for 5? I don't see any scenario where that isn't unaffordable. But really...

Frugal, you don’t have any actual real friends after living there a long time?

Yes, I heard of such things. Weren't they usually English spinsters? We didn't know any. :)

Super burrito

I was turned down on my first several attempts to get a credit card too, it seems that they'd like to see a good credit history before committing to...

That's the point. In the 50s choices were limited.

People do have nannies. Woman now are doctors, lawyers etc.... It is the quality of time spent, not the quantity. I think a mother is a better...

True. When I had two kids 14 months apart, I decided to start a family day care business because it would have killed me to net zero financially with...

I have been to Boston twice and loved it. Took public transit of course. Too big to live there for me and I am sure too expensive.

Fettucini Alfredo.

Congrats Tradd!

I'd like to think that having my mother in the home, making sure we were fed and clothed and safe was a high minded choice made in our best...

Yesterday made spaghetti from leftover sausage and peppers (mentioned earlier), added marinara sauce and put over spaghetti noodles. EXCELLENT! Bet...

These days you could get a mortgage as a woman, you just could never afford one on a single salary. (Oh yes they actually were affordable on one...

I know these mortgage games were difficult back in the day. By the time I bought a house in 1983, it was not unusual for women, apparently. I...

Shirley Chisholm said "I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being Black."

When I bought my first place, the loan officer showed me off to his staff--women seeking mortgages (or maybe getting them) was such a novel idea at...

We walk everywhere around our community, talk to people and have lived here for many years. I feel people have their own families and don't need...

It wasn't just the workplace where woman were not treated equally. In high school one of my friend's parents had divorced (around 1980). Her mom...

I devoutly hope unions make a comeback. They've never left more progressive countries.

and if she was born at a later time she wouldn't have been able to pursue that either. Sheeesh who is unionized anymore or has been for decades? ...

Just what I was thinking. Similar to not being able to see police brutality against minorities when you aren't one.

I was born in 67 and didn't know any woman that worked fulltime until I got to Junior High School in 1980. I had a couple of aunts that had part...

My 24 year old daughter is still experiencing discrimination in the workplace. It may be easier to not notice this stuff if you are male.

You are lucky to have that experience. I experienced many incidences of gender discrimination since high school. I am also stubborn and persistent,...

I would live to visit some day. I know I would like Vermont as well as nh . Theoretically I like Boston but I will never never drive in it so I...

So your mother was also left in the lurch like mine was... maybe our realities aren't that far apart, but our perspectives and how they shaped our...

You are lucky to have that experience. I experienced many incidences of gender discrimination since high school. I am also stubborn and persistent,...

Your remarks were specifically directed to me, but have nothing to do with anything I've said or any position I've taken. As the child of a...

Women were definitely second class citizens whether Alan believes it or not. IL many women in the 50’s didn’t drive and even if they did they...