Coming off the heels of Mother’s Day has reminded me of how many women do not feel they can purchase property on their own. I’ve heard stories about feeling safer with another income coming in, feeling that it's “just too much to take on solo,” and feeling, very simply, the idea that owning property is something you do when you have a partner, not on your own.
Of course, there are still reasons why these myths exist. Historically, property passed down through the male side of lineage. As you probably know, it wasn’t until the mid-1970s that women were allowed to have a checking account on their own, much less be able to obtain credit without the permission of their nearest male relative.
The American dream of a white picket fence, lyrically portrayed in the song “Our House,” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, does not invoke visuals of a single ownership. And yet there is the traditional stance that women are the “nesters” of our species.