Women, in this age, it is difficult for many of us to understand that there was an era where women required their husband's approval for financial business.
Canadian comedian Rick Mercer, in his "Talking to Canadians" shares a memory of him accompanying his mother to a bank. Here is the exchange with the loan officer.😎
"Mom had an appointment. Could anything be more boring than having to accompany a parent to the bank? We sat in a waiting area longer than anticipated and I could see she was not impressed. Eventually we were called to an office, where my mother present some papers to the man and was preparing to sign. My mother, who worked full time as a nurse, was partially financing the purchase of a new car. When she passed the papers, the man said something to the effect that everything was in order, the loan would be no problem, but, he said, reaching for his phone, 'I'm just going to give your husband a call and see if he's okay with you getting a new car'.
Well, things were no longer boring. I had never seen a person with such little regard for their own life than this man in front of me. A suicide bomber would have a better chance of emerging unscathed from a mission, than some guy in a bad suit telling my mother she needed her husband's permission to do something.
'This poor dumb creature,' I thought. 'He has no idea what he has done.'
Long story short, after the guy had been given what can only be called a brutal re-education in gender equality, we ended up marching across the street to the Bank of Nova Scotia. In her wake Mom left a man forever changed. A man who would think long and hard before ever again suggesting a woman get her husband's permission to buy a car."
