Women being allowed in bars, Australia, 1974

Incredibly gentlemen like. They didnt want her in there to know how horrible we as men can be. That's how real men used to be.

How many of these men went to the bar to avoid a bunch of questions at home? If my wife reads this- I think it is horrible and of course she belongs there.

Notice how respectful the men were of women back then. They literally wouldn't swear around them. We've come along way down since then.

British Women’s reaction to topless dresses in 1964.

"I do not think women should be allowed to drink in bars" - Sydney, Australia 1967. The Marble Bar.

The father of the year! ❤️

this dad is a legend ❤️

In the not too distant past Australian women were not allowed to drink in public bars, a throwback to the temperance movement in the early 1900s when it became socially unacceptable for respectable women to frequent hotels. By the 1920s most hotels provided a lounge in which both male and female patrons were jointly accommodated but designated 'ladies parlors' were frowned upon lest they "encourage a certain type of woman to ‘hang around' hotels." WWII saw the number of women drinkers increase to the point where it was suggested that post-war every hotel should have a lounge exclusively for women, besides the general lounge, so that from the 1950s to the 1970s there were ladies lounges in most pubs. From the mid-1960s women's rights activists began to publicly challenge sexual segregation and the final curtain for ladies lounges came when the liquor licensing laws were relaxed in the 1970s-1980s, along with the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation, enabling women to drink in public bars without causing outrage.

Ladies Lounge at the Tallangatta Hotel, 1954 #iwd

Woman being around men just ads another level of social dynamic. Sometimes we just wonna go somewhere and chill. Thats how I would put it.