Upon moving here I found that Things Are Not What They Appear To Be. I suspect that moving anyplace would give a person the feeling that life is change; but moving to the Indianapolis area was a real eye opener. As a female of "a certain age", I believed that I was happily past having to prove myself in any field, yet on more than one occasion, I have had to fight for my equal rights in a state where talk is that everyone is equal and women are autonomous.
When I moved here my automobile insurance moved with me. I am married, yet maintain my own credit, insurance and identity. Yet when our insurance agent got our information and set up our accounts, SHE conveniently chose to put both insurance policies in my husbands name - thus rendering my own policy as just an extension of said husband. When called, the agent said to me "What does it matter whose name the policy is in? You're still insured." Honestly, I spent 15 minutes going off about how women in the 50s and 60s had to fight for the 'right' to have their own insurance.
When I registered my business in the state of Indiana, to the office of Todd Rokita, I filled out the forms, using myself as sole business owner and founder. I made the mistake of sending the fee for the registration service with a personal check - from a joint checking account. As the Secretary of States office likes to point out: it is their position that they will use the MALE name on a joint checking account to register the business, if the fee is paid with a personal check. Never mind that the form lists an entirely different person as owner of the business - Todd Rokita's office has "Always done things this way and intends to continue to do so". After numerous phone calls and emails objecting to such misogynist tactics, I believe that my husband still is the registrant of my business in the state of Indiana.

Indiana staunchly refuses to entertain the notion of passing Marital Property laws. This means that if a couple divorces, the husband can kick the wife out of a family house and sell it keeping all profits for himself. Nevermind that the house may have been paid for with the out of the house career of the wife - It's Always Been Done This Way and No One Sees Any Reason To Change Things.

Change is quite uncomfortable to many people. Yet change is what life is all about. And hopefully, change for the better. In the case of Hoosiers, perhaps the majority of them believe that changing the status quo with Equal Rights is darned prickly. However, it is long past time for Indiana to shake itself out of its corrupt "Old Boy Networking" and give something new a chance. Like Equal Rights for women, people of color, people of other religious traditions and (Big One Here) Gays.