The 1960's vs. Today with King RayVet

KingRayVet (Ray Gibson) - BioRay Gibson (born 1957) is a military veteran, former software consultant, and digital content creator best known as the eldest child of St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson. On social media platforms like YouTube and Substack, he creates content under the handle @kingrayvet.Key Highlights & Background· Military & Early Life: Born in 1957 during the height of his father’s baseball career, Ray grew up moving across the country. He is an honorable veteran of the U.S. Air Force.· Professional Career: Following his military service, Ray worked as a software consultant and later retired. He was also a public speaker for Landmark Worldwide.· Identity & Advocacy: A Black transgender man, Ray has shared his story openly regarding his gender identity, growing up as the child of a legendary athlete, and his path toward self-acceptance and reconciliation with his father prior to Bob Gibson’s passing.· Content Creation: On Substack and YouTube, he hosts “Ray’s BoomBoom Room Kingdom,” where he shares commentary on current events, sports, social issues, and personal stories.What has actually changed for women, leadership, and the American workplace, and what has notThe spine of it: Section 1 pairs the 1960s legal reality (credit cards requiring a husband’s signature until 1974, sex-segregated job ads until 1973, pregnancy a fireable event until 1978, zero women Fortune 500 CEOs) against today’s numbers, a record 11% of Fortune 500 CEOs, ~85 cents on the dollar and stable for two decades per Pew, just under 30% of Congress. Section 2 traces Theory X command-and-control to trust-based leadership, with the catch that the “new” style is the one women were penalized for. Section 3 handles generations with the contested-research flag you require (Rudolph et al.; Pew’s retreat from generational framing). Section 4 covers the culture shift: marriage age, household economics, Loving v. Virginia, marital rape law. It closes with “What Has Not Changed.”How to Use These PointsEach section pairs the 1960s reality against today’s, with the research or law behind each claim. Citations follow APA 7th. Primary empirical sources are unmarked; practitioner sources and contested statistics are flagged in brackets. The through-line for any talk: the locks came off the doors, but the tax at the door, likability, the double bind, the second grading axis, is still being collected.Section 1: A Woman’s Legal and Workplace RealityThe 1960s:• Her money required a man’s signature. Banks could and routinely did refuse a woman a credit card or loan without a husband or male co-signer. That stayed legal until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974).• The job listings were segregated by sex. Newspapers ran “Help Wanted, Male” and “Help Wanted, Female” columns; the practice survived until Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (1973).• Pregnancy was a fireable event. Employers could legally dismiss a woman for being pregnant until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978).• Equal pay had just become law on paper. The Equal Pay Act passed in 1963, when women working full time earned roughly 59 cents to a man’s dollar; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) followed a year later.• The jury box and the corner office were both closed. Some states still excused women from jury service by default until Taylor v. Louisiana (1975). Harvard Business School admitted its first women to the MBA program in 1963. The number of women running Fortune 500 companies in the 1960s: zero; the first, Katharine Graham of The Washington Post, arrived in 1972.• About 38 in 100 women worked for pay. Women’s labor force participation stood near 37.7% in 1960 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023).Today:• A record and a reality check. Women now run a record 11% of Fortune 500 companies (55 CEOs) as of 2026 (Hinchliffe, 2026). Celebrate the record; say the other number out loud: 89% are still run by men.• The pay gap moved 26 cents in 60 years. Women working full-time earn roughly 85 cents to a man’s dollar, and Pew finds the gap has been essentially stable for two decades (Pew Research Center, 2025). [Figures vary by measure — 77–85 cents depending on whether all workers or full-time/year-round are counted; both are real, cite the definition you use.]• Political voice: under one-third. Women hold just under 30% of the seats in Congress (Cent