There’s enough documented cases where we KNOW this is the case to think this is likely true for a very large proportion of them. Dick Francis is a major case in point; his wife wrote most of “his” books.
There’s enough documented cases where we KNOW this is the case to think this is likely true for a very large proportion of them. Dick Francis is a major case in point; his wife wrote most of “his” books.
Another example: Artist Margaret Keane whose husband (Walter Keane) took credit for her paintings.
She did get to enjoy credit for her work while alive.
You have to wonder at the mentality of men who do this. What kind of narcissistic asshole do you have to be to pretend that a creation is yours?
Oh. Wait. The popularity of generated “Art” tells me exactly what kind of asshole you have to be: a run of the mill asshole.
For reference, women in the US weren’t allowed to have their own bank accounts until the 1970s. At least they were able to make money from their work.
Ayup. It’s absolutely scary to me that women were that badly off in the USA in my lifetime.
My mother remembers being able to get her own account. My grandmother was the first to go to college, a ‘teaching college’ the only kind that really accepted women at the time.
That’s not entirely true.
Banks were basically allowed to deny people for more reasons and many would use the reason that they wanted a husband’s signature as they were viewed as the sole income maker of a household. Divorced and single women didn’t always face this discrimination but at some banks they definitely would. Really just depends on the bank.
In 74 they made this type of discrimination illegal. That’s part why RBG was seen as such a champion.
It was especially growing in numbers post WWII where a lot of men were dead and women had jobs they had to work during the war as male labor was down. Banks were becoming more and more open to it.
Source; my great grandmother who was divorced in the 40s and would talk about these types of experiences. She ended up having to reach out to someone she went to school with who worked at a bank to get an account or something.
Thank you for this context! It makes so much sense in the context of post-war society. I appreciate you sharing.