Mary Pat Truthheart
Appearances
Debt Heads
S1.E2 - The House Always Wins (Part One)
So in the law, we have this concept for segregation. Is it segregation de jure by law or is it segregation de facto, meaning by fact? And so that's how it really was for women. It wasn't de jure necessarily, although in some ways women weren't permitted to be bartenders. They weren't permitted to serve on juries. And that was by law.
Debt Heads
S1.E2 - The House Always Wins (Part One)
Yeah. It was they didn't really have this sense that women could make and control their own money. So they weren't You know, they didn't have any sort of credit history. And at that time, a lot of houses and cars and everything, a lot of property was just titled in the husband's name. And these women had nothing in their own names, nothing.