Just to add to your grandmother's story. My grandmother went to business
college while her brothers went to college because her parents thought that
education was wasted on a girl. She had some friends whose parents sent
them to college just so they would be attractive to college educated men and
get married to one. When she graduated and married my grandfather, she was
working as a business assistant and was making more money than him. Shortly
after they were married, a year or so, he convinced her employer to let her
go so he could be the breadwinner in the house and she could have babies.
So she was fired. True story.
Now she has educated herself so much that she is a great stock picker and
financier and my grandfather is gone. I'm glad. When I was growing up, my
mother was in charge of the finances. In my house, I am the same because
(and my husband will attest to it) I am much more comptetent with finances.
I also tend to geek out as far as learning about finances and the stock
market goes. I'm pretty conservative but it's fascinating to me.
By the way, I went to school for a little while in the U.K. and worked in
London for awhile and I was surprised at some of the sexist rules they still
have on the books!
Lisa
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Subject: [issues] Women and finance
> helen hudson wrote:
>
> > I'm from the UK. My Mother tells me that it was impossible for a single
> > woman to get a bond/mortgage when she was in her 20's... only 40 years
ago.
>
> Shortly before I was born (just over 30 years ago), my grandfather
> divorced my grandmother.
>
> She'd never been permitted to manage her own money - it wasn't
> expected that she should. My parents (and her other children, of course)
> had to teach her how to manage it - she'd dealt with money on the
> level of 'take what your husband gives you and somehow feed and clothe
> a family of six on it'. But she had no idea what was in the bank account,
> or how to handle having one. She couldn't pay bills, not even rent.
>
> She tells me of times when she would have a man come by to cut off
> some service or other, and would have to say 'please don't, I promise
> I'll tell my husband to pay it'. She'd have had no idea that they were
> behind. And the serviceman would nod understandingly. That was normal.
> The lady of the house never did!
>
> <shudder>
>
> I'm soooo glad I don't live like that!
>
>
>
> Jenn V.
> --
> "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
> you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/
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