On: Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn

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What? You've completely reversed the facts here.

Women couldn't get credit cards until 1974- they could ONLY use cash before that. The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act is what outlawed refusing credit to women, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act

If anything history supports the opposite of your chosen narrative.