Maybe it allowed her to sit down, go to the bathroom more frequently, all things that being at the front desk all day would make more difficult?

Before they started giving credit cards to everyone, whether they made enough money or not. Really, things were different as late as the 80's in ways that were not entirely sexist.

She was establishing credit with a$200 layaway on furniture? No one without a credit history or job could do that back then, male or female.

Yes, but you still had to establish credit and the standard was higher for everyone. This was not as easy as it is today, not by a long shot, particularly if you had never owned property, worked, or had a history of paying off debts. Many women did not back then. Men couldn’t get them is they hadn’t established a…

Probably because she had no established credit in her own name. If you didn’t have that, it used to be you could not get a credit card. The easy credit era was a decade away. My husband uses my Macy’s cards. Most store cards permitted this back then and still do today.

She wanted a credit card so bad she cried? Your dates are off and, though they were nice, no one wept over them back then - not even feminists.

College students at my woman’s college had their own credit cards in the late 70's in their own names. It was harder to get one then, but if you had the credit rating, you got it. My mother had one in the 60's. Your dates are wrong