Women couldn't get credit cards until 1972, "not 1872," John Hope Bryant reminded the #FortuneGlobalForum.
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00:00In 1972, a woman could not get a credit card, not 1872.
00:05A woman could not get a bank loan
00:07without her husband co-signing it.
00:11This is shocking.
00:12This is a real debate.
00:13Like women should not have these opportunities
00:15and should have a job.
00:16We, of course, made the right decision as a country.
00:19Today, forget the morals now, forget the ethics about this.
00:23Put that aside.
00:24Today, women are six to $7 trillion
00:26of the GDP of this country.
00:28We're, they are a third of the GDP
00:31of the largest economy on the planet,
00:33which means if we had gotten that wrong,
00:36if we had let our small mindedness overtake us,
00:40we'd be a third rate nation today.