Maria Vargas’s Reviews > Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation > Status Update

As part of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which had taken effect in 1975, banks and other financial institutions such as department stores and oil companies had sent over three hundred million notices to women informing them that they could now rightfully apply for credit or accounts in their own names.

Women’s suffrage was granted out west decades ahead of its national adoption. On December 10, 1869, the Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote, and in 1870, women in Utah gained the right to vote.

Despite that Wild West image, the western lands that would later become Colorado had a history of being friendlier toward women, even before the nation’s founding.

In 1974, bank discrimination on the basis of sex had been going on rather unremarkably until a few activists pointed out its flaws. It had finally been outlawed by the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, also called “Regulation B.”