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...out without men because back in the primitive days of this country, there were too many primitives that won't even allow women to dine out unless they were accompanied by men...Good to see the equality progress... O0:

"Restaurants as we know them today emerged in the United States in the 1820s and ‘30s. (Before then, the main dining places outside the home were inns and taverns where an unaccompanied woman was unusual and presumed to be of “ill repute”) The early restaurants, meant to be places of elegant dining, either banned or discouraged unaccompanied women. A few restaurants, reports Freedman, provided private rooms where men could bring paid companions for dinner and apres-dinner activities. Hotels had to accommodate occasional solo women travelers; some set aside special eating rooms with separate entrances just for them. Similarly, some restaurants allowed groups of women to reserve private rooms for lunches. But in general and despite protests by early feminists, respectable restaurants discouraged women, especially if they were not with husbands or fathers, from dining or from dining in the central space."



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