Except even in this thread, there's a story about a woman with her own income and her own credit card, yet once she got married the card literally had to be in her husband's name now, and she could only be an authorized user on the account going forward. So even though she had a job, an income, a source of money to pay the card, and had even had the card for a while, once she was married she no longer had control over her finances.
The names have nothing to do with it. Today if the names change from marriage you just have to provide a copy of the marriage certificate and any other name change legal documents and that would be the end of that. That's very different from having to add the husband as the primary account holder while the woman, precious owner of the account, has to be an authorized user instead.
I mean lets think about it today... if you don't have a job and can pay it back, do you get a credit card?
The answer is no. Just like it was then. Nothing male only about it.
Except even in this thread, there's a story about a woman with her own income and her own credit card, yet once she got married the card literally had to be in her husband's name now, and she could only be an authorized user on the account going forward. So even though she had a job, an income, a source of money to pay the card, and had even had the card for a while, once she was married she no longer had control over her finances.
Because when she got married she legally changed her name so the old name on the old credit card was now invalid?
The names have nothing to do with it. Today if the names change from marriage you just have to provide a copy of the marriage certificate and any other name change legal documents and that would be the end of that. That's very different from having to add the husband as the primary account holder while the woman, precious owner of the account, has to be an authorized user instead.