Although cards were becoming widely available in the 1950s, women and minorities were often excluded from getting a credit card. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed in 1974 and prohibits ...

Women’s control over their financial lives has come a long way since the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and the ECOA in 1974, which permitted women to own their own credit cards ...

As women and minorities pushed for equal civil rights in various arenas, credit cards ... in 1974—forty years ago this year—the Senate passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which made ...