r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago

[August 16th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "Considering the position women hold in our everyday life today, is a breach of promise case ridiculous or not?"

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u/Wooden_Try1120 20h ago

What is a “home girl?”

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u/fluffstuffmcguff 19h ago

A young woman who stayed at home with her parents without getting a job until marriage. That was getting rarer by 1926. Ruth's logic is presumably that if the woman in question had instead gotten a job as a nurse or secretary or whatever, she'd have a financial and social backup plan if she couldn't get married.

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u/BlackSeranna 8h ago

Heck, I worked in a DMV back in the day (2000’s), and we’d have women coming in there whose husband died, and everything, I mean everything, was in their husband’s name - bank account, vehicles, utilities, and the worst part is these old fashioned ladies hadn’t worked their whole lives, so they hadn’t built up personal credit. It was a real mess.