The Resolute Woman

Category: sexism

  • The number of women leaders

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    The numbers tell the story of how far we have come and how far we still have to go. Women now hold top leadership positions—president, prime minister or its equivalent—in more than 70 countries in Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific. In fact, women lead two of Europe’s most powerful nations—Germany and Great Britain.…

  • A serious candidate for president

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    When Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972, the press asked her repeatedly: “But, Mrs. Chisholm, are you a serious candidate?” The reporters wanted to know if Chisholm thought that the country was ready to vote for a Black woman for president. They asked Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, if women should be…

  • Margaret Chase Smith for president?

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    “Would you comment on the possible candidacy of Margaret Chase Smith?” someone asked John F. Kennedy at his last press conference in 1963, only days before he left for Dallas. “I think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady,” Kennedy replied. “She is a very…

  • Virginia Woodhull for president

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    Victoria Woodhull, “a lady stock operator of Wall Street,” was a “highly unorthodox candidate for president,” concludes Ellen Fitzpatrick in her book The Highest Glass Ceiling—Women’s Quest for the American Presidency. When Woodhull announced her “self-nomination” in 1870, women couldn’t vote. And, she didn’t meet the minimum age for president mandated by the Constitution. Woodhull…

  • The brethren laughed heartily

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    In 1853, Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and feminist, was invited to sit in the chair of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “As I took my place,” she said later, “I involuntarily exclaimed: ‘Who knows, but this chair may one day be occupied by a woman.’ The brethren laughed heartily.” In 1873, the Supreme Court…

  • When my mother was born

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    I’ve been thinking about the fact that, when my mother was born, women couldn’t vote in the United States. When I was born, women couldn’t serve on juries in Texas. Women finally were allowed to serve on juries in this state in 1954. Now, a woman is running for president as the candidate of one…

  • Beat your wife “lightly”

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    Pakistan’s most populated province approved a law that gives women protection from abusive husbands. However, the country’s Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposes the new law, reported The Dallas Morning News in its May 27 issue. The council has drafted a proposal that husbands should be allowed to “lightly beat” their wives.

  • The glory of football

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    An independent investigation concluded that Baylor University’s “response to students who reported sexual assaults was woefully inadequate,” according to the May 27, 2016, issue of The Dallas Morning News. As a result, Baylor demoted its president and suspended its football coach. “I think the message…should be a message that the safety and the well-being of…

  • Women’s soccer vs. men’s soccer

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    The U.S. women’s soccer team has won four Olympic gold medals. With one brief interruption, the team has been continuously ranked No. 1 in the world since March 2008. In contrast, the American men’s soccer team has never won an Olympic gold medal, and the team is ranked No. 30 in the world. Guess which…

  • The double bind

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    A double bind requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands, explained Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, in a recent article in The Washington Post. “Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other. Women running for office, as with all women in authority, are subject to these two demands: Be a…