In the early 1970s, a large group of women across the country who were tired of the double-standards of lending practices and discriminatory financial laws decided to take matter into their own hands.

They started their own feminist credit unions.

Women at the time could almost never acquire a loan in their own names or establish their own credit. Everything was in their husband's name even if the woman in the household was working or the person paying the bills. If a woman was single, it was equally as difficult to obtain a loan and more often than not were required to have their parents co-sign the loan papers.