I was talking about credit, not banking accounts. According to this: https://www.bostonfed.org/education/ledger/ledger04/sprsum/credhistory.pdf https://www.bos

I was talking about credit, not banking accounts. According to this: https://www.bostonfed.org/education/ledger/ledger04/sprsum/credhistory.pdf https://www.bostonfed.org/education/ledger/ledger04/sprsum/c... > The use of consumer credit had become a fixture of everyday life. In 2000, more than 70 percent of U.S. households had at least one gener- al-purpose credit card — MasterCard, Visa, Optima, or Discover. Thirty years earlier, in 1970, the number was only 16 percent. Your point is well taken about bank accounts though. What you say about history moving fast and slow is very interesting. In this case it seems to have moved very fast. Did you feel you had any trouble getting a bank account as a women in your generation? My wife set up most of our accounts so I can only assume it's not a problem. That is indeed a very large change for one generation. The university enrollment data is very interesting. The data you linked to only goes to 1998 but still shows a 15% increase in enrollment. Even more interesting how the gender ratio has changed: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_306.10.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_306.10.a... 1976: 53% male, 47% female = 6% difference 2012: 43% male, 57% female = 14% difference Women dominate higher education now much more than med did in 1976.