re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of my wife’s superiors at Digital Equipment Corporation, a single woman and vice-president, was denied a Discover credit card in Colorado Springs because “she did not make enough money.” That was in 1992.

According to my wife, the vice-president specifically applied for the card because a number of women at Digital had all been denied Discover cards for the same reason.

She says they put the vice president up to it was to see if “insufficient income” was actually the reason, as there were men in the company who made less than the women denied. The vice-president’s income was in the hundred thousands range, and Discover turned her down as well.

She says she didn’t know how it turned out as she left Digital before the issue was concluded with the women.

eventually, the card issuers saw the market potential and that was that